Chapter Five LUNCH WAS A QUIET AFFAIR. Sheydu had taken her association to their own apartment next door. There was to be some kind of briefing, I gathered. The security team held these meetings on occasion. They could be about some particular issue, or about some training or new equipment. I rarely found out what they were about. There also didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to who was and wasn’t invited. I usually didn’t concern myself with these meetings. But there had been quite a few of them recently, and usually they only involved Sheydu and her team, and maybe Reida. This particular meeting included Thayu, Veyada, Deyu and Reida, which left me to have lunch with only Nicha and Mereeni. One did not, in general, wonder what the others were up to because, if it was important,