31 GOTCHA After shutting down the comm channel, Avery allowed herself a moment to take stock of her situation. She couldn’t help but feel impressed at the scope of the movement that Gideon and his companions had mobilised. Kroll was so lost in his desire to create a New British empire, that he had underestimated the strength and guile of those gathering against him in the lonely wastes of the Frozen North, and in forgotten corners of the Factories. An idea began to take shape. — It was the strength of those people that Gideon and the others needed with them now. All she had to find was a little incentive — and a way to get them to the pyramid. She reached her consciousness out into the vastness of the Kaonet, probing at security logs and network portals, until she found that which she

