When Anna passed through the door to the Prep Room, she found herself in a short but dark tunnel, a tunnel that ended in a large, open area. A circular table dominated the windowless room, and Justice Keepers stood around it in small clusters. There must have been at least sixty of them, all team leaders. Some she knew; others she didn"t.
Larani was on the far side of the table with her hands clasped behind herself, gazing up at the hologram of a woman in a military uniform. There were four versions of that hologram, one pointed in each of the four cardinal directions so that people on all sides of the room could see her.
Captain Zai-Ella Taborn, a woman of average height who wore her black hair up in a clip, faced the assembled Keepers with a blank expression. Anna remembered her from t
