“You’re right, I don’t like it.” Meresh scrubbed a hand over his face. “But I can also see how it might work.”
“Of course it’ll work!” I had no idea if it would actually work. But it seemed better than the other options.
“I don’t know if my people will agree.”
“Then you’d better brief them soon, because I don’t know how much time we have.”
He sighed, obviously hating the predicament he and his people were in. “I will call a gathering.”
***
“Are you out of your mind?” Not surprisingly, Pimo was the first to voice his opposition to the plan. “A bunch of freaks are coming here to attack us, and you expect us to just sit here and do nothing?”
Meresh squared his shoulders, his proud posture reminding everyone who was chief. He stood on a thick block of wood in the middle of the compound
