“Scarlett!” Elgin yelled behind me.
I ran as fast as the narrowness of the passages would allow me. Nothing seemed more important to me than to run away and forget what I had just seen. If I stayed, if I met Shona’s calculating gaze, if she untied her poisoned tongue in front of me, I would kill her without a shadow of regret.
“Damn it!” Elgin swore. “Scarlett! Come back!”
I rushed straight ahead, ignoring his injunctions and the people I jostled violently in my path. I left the narrow bottlenecks and, redoubling my speed, I rushed along the arcades, slaloming between the inhabitants. To run away. To run away. To run away…
“Hey!” a homid shouted when I knocked him off balance and he sprawled out full length on the ground.
I barely turned my head and continued my run, determined t
