Chapter Three AMARRU GOT BACK TO ME in the morning, with the message that she hadn’t received anything from Dekker and she knew of no attacks, especially not in America Free State, because Stuff that happens there doesn’t normally make the mainstream news. Between the lines, I read that she was also frustrated with the new administration, since she had always been on good terms with Margarethe’s people. The lack of continuity in leadership was one of the things Coldi found most frustrating in Earth’s political system. Thayu would ask: “How can people rely on the authorities when they change every couple of years?” It was hard for me to defend that question, because she was right, and we were seeing that upheaval of relationships in action right now. Meanwhile, no one at gamra knew whe