Chapter Thirty-ThreeMariko felt like throwing the scanner and translator down in the dirt and jumping up and down on them.
It was not the reaction she had expected after going for so long without the vital technology…but the devices were not providing the quick success that she needed. Deciphering the complex system of scent signals in the Garden of Yesterday was proving to be even more difficult than she had anticipated.
Returning to the Garden had been the easy part. Altis, Uvo, and three of their friends had provided protection on the way from Speech Center to the nearest tunnel access; Swift's allies had repelled attacks twice along the way, though most Vox had seemed more interested in fleeing the invaders and violence in the plaza than making trouble for the human refugee and her
