Chapter Thirteen
I walked Mari to Miranda’s that night. If I could have skipped out on the assignment and stayed with Mari, I would have. But I couldn’t risk causing a fuss.
Someone had attacked the domes, whether or not the guards wanted to admit it. Someone had set off a bomb, and the kep had no idea who’d done it.
I waited outside my building for Walsh and silently followed him toward the atrium. He chatted, and I tried to nod and laugh to fill all the right pauses. But I couldn’t really hear what he was saying. I was too busy searching the halls for devices that might blow me apart.
We passed a few guards in the corridors, but not nearly enough to protect a place under attack.
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d want more kep guards around, but I did. I wanted them in full ri
