Chapter 19
Elizabeth returned to the Wanderer exhausted and not a little drunk. She’d managed to find out at least some of the information she wanted. She’d tracked down several contacts and had got the message across that the Wanderer was in the market for work, in particular work that wasn’t quite the right side of the law.
It was a dangerous game to play. There was the risk of being caught up in a sting operation by the authorities and if she did manage to reach a more criminally leaning group there were still significant dangers. By definition they were people who didn’t play by the rules. There wasn’t much choice. If the others wanted to cross the Quarantine Zone then they needed contacts, and the only way to get those contacts was to take risks.
Jess was sitting on a sofa wh
