Chapter Fourteen
SHEYDU NEVER DID ANYTHING without being thoroughly prepared. In her language, preparation meant weapons, and armour, and a whole host of other security items that quickly piled up in the hall. We all got feeders to keep in better contact with each other. I’d long since resigned myself to wearing them whenever we were on official duty.
It also meant maps. It meant contact with the Exchange and the city guards and other mysterious people who might or might not have included Pengali contracts. It meant satellites.
People divided tasks. Devlin would stay here. Reida was our field communications person. Deyu would carry a local transmitter. Deyu and Veyada would provide “close body support”, meaning they would walk next to me. Sheydu and her association would spread out so t
