Chapter 3: A Little Help From a Friend
The trade agreement had been signed at the first meeting of the day in Qeveris’s office, and after refreshments, their host escorted her eminent guest and his entourage to the top floor of the palace for the second discussion with the generals.
The room was bigger than a conference with four people required, but Kia assumed the governor had chosen it to impress her guests as a floor to ceiling plasglass window offered a stunning panoramic view over Ondasun and beyond where the verdant green of the jungle contrasted with the higgledy-piggledy sprawl of the city.
Both generals and Qeveris waited for Rial to sit and then followed suit. Kia and Nagavi assumed their positions behind his seat, and she studied the generals as the rest of the Chenjerai spr
