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EVERYONE FROZE. Delegate Namion and his guards on one side, Reida and his two Pengali assistants on the other.
Delegate Namion looked pointedly at Reida’s gun, still levelled at chest height, where a moment ago the nervous research worker had been backing away, and where it now pointed at the Chief Delegate.
Reida lowered his gun, mumbling an apology. My heart was thudding. Reida had a lot still to learn about gamra protocol. I was pretty sure that he wouldn’t easily be forced into doing silly things with that weapon, but I wasn’t so sure about the Delegate’s nervous guards.
Reida and his two friends retreated slowly to our side of the tent. Faced with a couple of heavily armed gamra guards, there was nothing they could do.
There was nothing any of my association could do. Only I c
