WHEN LING AND MEI ONCE again entered Aurelia’s ready room, the Roman declared, “If you are trying to think of a way to dissolve our partnership, you must do better than to try and sneak an assassin’s blade onboard my ship.”
Sneering, Ling held up a hand toward her sister. “Say nothing.” To their Roman host she said, “We have much to accomplish, and little time with which to do it.”
Aurelia gestured to the seats closest to the front of the room, where several charts were laid out on the large table.
There were drawings of the layout of the city. There were drawings of the barracks where the individual warriors were housed. There was a detailed rendering of the fortress where Gengshi and his entourage were housed, and there was a highly detailed drawing of the arena where the tournament m
