Tonas’s mind was drowning in discordant images when Security arrived forty-five mots to the parsec after Mark and Juraens came to give warning. It had taken everything that was Sarran in him and in his Firefly to give Anya up, even for those few tines they would be apart. It was only Mark’s possession of the holo and Juraens assurance of TeZarron’s goodwill that convinced him and Jonal to abide by honor and the Codex. Beside Mark and Juraens’s example, he and Jonal could do no less.
Juraens and Mark had communicated the situation to them in less than a few parsec. They did it by mind link and the backlash for those who were not Hi-Psi was excruciating. However, it had given them time to prepare Anya and do a complete security sweep. Juraens and Mark had checked thoroughly for listening de
