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SHIT.
I left the room in search of Eirani to pack me a small bag. What did one bring for a small trip that may or may not involve deep space travel, gunfights, death and all-out war? Especially the latter worried me. Not simply because of the terrible consequences of war and my severe doubts that even the Asto military had any chance of winning it. I also worried that if Ezhya escalated this into an armed conflict, then much of my theory about how Coldi society worked was wrong. That was of course an utterly silly thing to be worried about, but I’d spent so much time telling people that this was why Coldi society worked that my reputation was tied up with it.
A bunch of additional people had come into the hall and stood talking in an atmosphere of tenseness. The newcomers carried not
