Chapter Twenty-Five
Jo stood beside Manota outside the Big Top the next evening dressed in a long, royal blue evening gown. Neither talked about what had passed between them the night before. Instead, they focused on the events about to unfold. Dakar had notified Manota that five warships had entered Kassisan airspace on the other side of the planet with forged documentation. Troop transports had been deployed from two of them. Four shuttles had also deployed and had headed immediately towards the capitol city.
Jarmen had been able to connect with the transmissions between the warships now that he had Tai Tek’s personal access codes. The shuttles had landed in a small clearing not far from the circus compound under the disguise of a surveying crew for the new development being built. The
