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HEART THUDDING, I followed Ezhya out of the hall. I sensed Thayu close behind me, so she must have surmised that she was allowed as well. Veyada was likely to follow close by, too.
Surely Ezhya was finally going to show me the reason why I had to come here.
From the arrival hall, we went into a corridor with a spongy floor that felt sticky under my feet. I frowned at Thayu, but she looked as bewildered about the material as I felt. I didn’t dare open the feeder. The level of surveillance was likely to be extreme.
Every soldier we met snapped into a subservient position to the point where I would pick up immediately if one person failed to do this. This was how Coldi saw if everything was in order: if a high-ranking Coldi person entered a room, the only people who didn’t look down sh
