Ritchie wasn"t even able to get out of bed yet before they were on their way back to Oymyakon. She didn"t know exactly what had happened between the time when Klemm had used her implant to cripple her with pain worse than anything she had ever even imagined was possible and when she had woken up to Fitz"s anxious face so close to hers.
She at least understood that Klemm was in custody, and they were safely out from under his watchful gaze. But that wouldn"t last for long. Something about the only thing he could be charged with was overzealously enforcing a parole, and how his lawyers were really the Berwegers" lawyers and hence some of the best in the Union of Free Worlds.
Fitz"s family"s lawyers were almost as good. They had negotiated dropping the charges against Klemm in return for dr
