“Ari. God, Ari . . . You wanted to sell him?” How . . . completely stupid, how utterly moving, from the depth of his heart, but so goddamn stupid.
After a silence, she said, “Do you know why he’s fleeing?”
“Some sort of weapon he’s trying to sell for the best price.”
“No, because he doesn’t want it to fall in the hands of crazy war lords.”
“One thing I don’t understand Melati. Why are you involved with this?”
“Because the mindbase of Rina’s boyfriend returned to the station in my cohort.”
His eyes widened. “How can that—”
“Something to do with that clear film everyone’s been playing with.”
“But I only bought that off the hypertechs—”
“—who have suddenly taken an interest in politics of the station, something they have never done before.”
“And the hypertechs bought it off Pandyakh
