Chapter Seventeen
Osias had invited Cariad along on the trip to survey the lake. She was glad to take a break from interviewing the Natural Movement suspects as she didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. She needed to try a different approach but she wasn’t sure what that should be.
Verney was bringing the portable scanner that Cariad had arranged to be sent down from the ship. He’d fixed it to the bottom of a flitter and linked it with the vehicle’s computer system.
“Do you know the range of this thing?” Verney asked when Cariad joined him at the flitter shed. “I don’t fancy going anywhere near that water.”
“I’m not sure exactly,” Cariad replied, “but it should be accurate to twenty or thirty meters I guess. We’ll soon be able to tell from the readings if we need to go any lower.”
Osias
