5 INTRODUCING TWO unrelated groups of Coldi to each other was always a risk, so when we came to the canteen, where the rest of my team sat, I let the two guards walk at the front, and positioned the Coldi lawyers behind them. The Coldi sheya instinct fired at first meeting between two people who didn’t know each other and it informed both parties which of the two was superior. This was a physiological reaction, and Amarru had seemed overly confident that the lawyers would be subordinate to the members of my team. I didn’t understand why she thought that. Because of the position they held in relation to her? All I knew of the instinct was that you could never be sure, especially when there had been an upset in relationships or when two people had no intermeshing loyalty networks, such as