Chapter 36
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I didn’t hear anything more from Kumar for another several weeks, and I got the impression he was avoiding me in the hallways and the cafeteria. I knew the guy was scared, but if he didn’t find out something about the satellite for me, then I was up against the wall. With no way to make any progress on my real agenda, I was reduced to holding meaningless meetings and training exercises with my security crew.
Late at night sometimes I’d leave my room, moving quietly to avoid the attention of the mercenaries, and plug my laptop in somewhere in one of the common areas to use the Virtual Private Network. I logged into the Okuni_sagae encrypted email address the first time I did this and found a message for me from the Sōhei Faction.
Checking in.
That was all it said. I
