Chapter Eight
‘So,’ said Serena some hours later, when at last she and the rest of the team had made it back to their apartment. ‘What happened back there?’
Teyo eyed her warily from his seat in an overstuffed armchair in their lounge. She was wearing a carefully pleasant expression, but he wasn’t fooled. She had a steely look in her eye. All had not gone well, he guessed, after he and Egg had left the site. Was it his doing? She had told him not to get too close to the Lokant woman, and he had.
‘I sent Jisp in,’ he said in a neutral voice, ‘but she wasn’t big enough. So we had to do it the other way.’
Serena said nothing, only stared at him with no particular expression that he could discern. He had no idea of what was going on in her head, which made him uncomfortable, and she was un
