V. Flight from Metra Litko
Nobody stopped or challenged them, as they made their way back to the main barroom of the Scuttling Cockroach. Apparently, it was assumed that if you were back here, you had a right to be. Which was a fatal security flaw in Anjali’s opinion, though even she had to admit that it made their lives easier.
When they reached the door that led back into the barroom, Mikhail held up a hand and cautiously peered around the corner, checking for trouble. And though he didn’t say anything, Anjali could tell by the way his muscles tensed that he’d found it.
So she slammed Pietro Garibaldi back against the wall and clamped her hand over his mouth, for Pietro had all the sense of a drunken mayfly and would probably have done something regrettable like speaking out loud or b
