Chapter Twenty My team had concluded their deliberations and were now looking at me, waiting to decide on the choices they had outlined. Were we going to wait for assistance from the Exchange, ask the Asto military to rescue us, or try to make an escape via the coast? But I had a different proposal to put to them. Normally, we would have a team meeting in the hub in our apartment in Barresh, or if we were somewhere else, in the accommodation’s bathroom, because if the accommodation was bugged, bathrooms were echoey and that messed with the quality of the recording. I wasn’t sure if we should include the locals in our planning. The fewer people knew about our plans, the better. But they might feel offended if we left them out, and I had no reason to distrust any of them. So my team gath