7 ON THE WAY BACK in the train, we discussed our unease about the various things that were happening around us. Sheydu didn’t like the Tamerians. To be honest, I don’t think anyone liked their presence, but I liked even less that no one could explain why they were in Barresh. I mostly felt uneasy about Federza having gone missing after trying to alert the gamra assembly that the Aghyrians were talking to Kando Luczon long before the ship got involved in the stand-off with Asto’s military. “I just don’t like that captain, nor his robotic helpers,” Thayu said. “If they knew enough about us to specially seek out the Barresh Aghyrians, they would have known that they should have sent their correspondence to gamra. My guess is that they’ve been spying on us for years. I don’t trust anything