16: Brice
Brice
The escort was impressive. Brice felt a burst of pride—all these guards, just to stop him escaping. Pryden wasn’t taking any chances. And the noise from the guards—the three in front, the five to the rear, and all those behind doors and watching sensor footage—was wary, didn’t trust Brice, wasn’t sure what he was capable of.
But Brice pushed the pride down, and concentrated. These guards were all Kaiahive, but not all of them arrived on the Proteus. Which meant most of them were already in position. Which meant they’d been expecting Brice.
So they’d been tracking his movements, while staying far enough back that Brice hadn’t sensed them. Brice wasn’t happy about that. When did he start losing focus?
Pryden Markos walked to Brice’s right, a hand hovering over the
