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IT WAS CLEAR to me: strong collaboration, legal and otherwise, was going to be required to get a murder conviction. We needed to act quickly. Gather the evidence, bring it to court, call witnesses, wherever they needed to come from. Had any Pengali ever travelled to Earth? If not, Abri would be the first.
Since it didn’t seem appropriate to invite my association into the president’s office, I asked Margarethe to come outside to meet them.
She had seen most of them before, of course, but only as inhabitants of my apartment. They sat on the couches or, in case of Deyu and Reida, on the floor, for the lack of seats.
When I finished the introductions, she said, “That is certainly an impressive team.”
I explained to her that we could, given the right access and permits, unleash Thayu, D
