Time passed. She had no feeling for how long. The pages of the book rolled past, but she wasn’t really following the story.
Suddenly she realised she’d been hearing Tarkus’s footsteps. She heard him walk into the room but she didn’t even glance up. For his part, he headed to the kitchen area without saying a word.
She carried on reading the book but she wasn’t really seeing the words now. She was painfully aware of Tarkus’s movements. She sat there wondering when he would bring up her attempted hacking.
Then she realised he probably didn’t know what she’d been up to. The system was isolated. That went both ways. She hadn’t been able to reach the Glimmer’s systems, but didn’t that mean Tarkus would have no idea what she’d done either?
Maybe, but she still felt he would see the
