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THE CRAFT I’D SEEN in the shed, of course, was Asha Domiri’s, and he was bold enough to leave during the daytime. Even the regular Exchange wasn’t in operation then, because the entry point to the anpar lines lay just outside the atmosphere, and the intense vortices of energy that the Exchange core produced when it connected to the anpar network interfered with regular air traffic.
Also, Nations of Earth tolerated the Exchange under the condition that they knew who came in. This craft in the shed violated all the rules, which clearly didn’t apply to people high up in the hierarchy. Then again, he’d only be going up into orbit and wouldn’t be using the Exchange. Even that gave me the chills. Just where was this home ship of his and why, with all the monitoring of the sky, had no one on
