When Syrina got back to Eheene, she watched Storik for a while, trying to decide what to do about him. He wouldn’t be easy. According to Ormo, the man had barely left the NRI compound since Syrina had first encountered him, and she couldn’t just take him out, in any case. It needed to look like an accident. Even more so than usual. On top of that, she couldn’t be sure if any other Kalis might be keeping an eye on him, not to mention the karakh.
Storik left just twice in the two months she watched the compound. The first time, he went into Eheene to meet with a lawyer. She didn’t bother finding out why, but no opportunity for an accident presented itself in the day he was there.
The second time, he went up into the taiga, three days northeast, to meet with the manager of a naphtha company
