Rina shrugged and offered an answer. “He seems to know how to handle a Gnosha trail, so maybe he’s done business with one of the other Hives. Some of them hire humans to act as go-betweens in their dealings with other groups of Gnosha.”
The young man’s eyes narrowed. “I wonder how you got to know so much about those freaks. You some kind of bug lover?”
Rina felt her face go hot with anger. “Maybe if you had a real job, you’d have done business with the Gnosha yourself, and then you’d know just as much about them as I do.”
The young man’s scowl deepened. “I don’t let uppity women like you tell me how to run my life.”
“And I don’t let ignorant layabouts tell me how to run mine,” Rina said.
The young man took a step toward her, but the bus driver put a hand on his shoulder. “She’s not wo
