Ricki lay motionless, listening as the two men talked in a quiet voice. She had been awake for several minutes, trying to figure out where she was and her best plan of attack. Now, listening to them, she began to see things from a different point of view.
She had no doubt they were telling the truth. She had picked up enough information back on Kassis to know why Ristéard Roald was there, she just didn’t realize it was so dire. There was something about what they were saying that bothered her, though.
Focusing, she picked up words that were vaguely familiar to her. She remembered reading something similar to what they were talking about in some of the archives back on Kassis when she was researching their history. In fact, she had copied all the files onto a storage chip right before Sta
