I spread my hands. Let them sink again. If they thought I was going to stand for the position and challenge, they were wrong. I would never stand up to gamra’s constant scrutiny. I was not impartial. I was not made of endless patience. I had not covered any of my tracks.
In amongst all the conflicting feelings and thought that ran through me, I found some sanity.
“I know the gamra assembly well enough to know that they get easily distracted by details. Not that I call the attempted deposing of a Chief Delegate a minor detail, but compared to the approaching ship emergency, it is. Let’s not try to distract them with internal politics. We can always depose him later. I dare say we don’t even need to get our hands dirty in that process.”
Ezhya nodded. He rubbed his upper lip, and then he n
