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Fisk, his people and a couple of young icians
So we’re screwed? Janco asked
"Yep" Valek eased back into a prone position
"Can I stop relaxing now?" Janco asked Ari
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The past three days had beenstrange or interesting, depending on the way I looked at it Bruns had taken Cahil’s advice and hadn’t wiped e about the Coer asked specific questions In fact, h the er I spent with him Which meant Cahil didn’t know about it No surprise, since it appeared Bruns had recruited Cahil and hadn’t brainwashed hi, it would have to appear as if they prepared for battle
I hadn’t found any proof ofwhile I worked with Bruns on strategy He planned to expand to the other garrisons in Sitia, indoctrinating the hiiningto death in the jail
I’d been sleeping in the side roo the washroo, Loris arrived and reinforced theabout that--for the next few hours, I couldn’t refuse a co on an I-love-Bruns high, but as the day wore on, the ic wore off From what I’d seen of Bruns’s other minions, that didn’t happen, and from the conversations Bruns had with Loris, it sounded as if once a person had been fully converted, they no longer needed to be influenced unless they had ic
Perhaps I hadn’t been fully rehabilitated yet Or perhaps what had happened with Janco in the jail--that blocking power--had so to do with it But I didn’t touch Loris Unless the baby really was a void and was slowly siphoning off the ic My head ached with the possibilities
The desire to bolt once the , but I wouldn’t leave without ured out a way to rescue theed Bruns calledin the ar
Mara stood on the other side of his desk I froze in shock for a uards bookended her, and she appeared healthy, despite a few cuts and bruises on her face Pure determination radiated from her--a side of Mara I hadn’t seen before
"You see? She’s perfectly fine and has joinedBruns now We have a lot of work to do in order to prepare for war"
"And it will be the same with Leif, if you convinced hi as we can work together," Mara said
He gave her a condescending smile "Of course I’m a businessman, and that was our deal"
Bruns called for his secretary, Tia, and asked her to escort Mara to the icians’ quarters to wait for Leif
"It’ll take a couple days In the meantime, please make yourself at home," Bruns said to Mara "All et bored, the cooks are always looking for help"