“What’s wrong?” Anna asked.
He explained and watched her enthusiasm drain away, exhaustion taking its place. “Okay,” she said. “We just have to come up with a workaround. Do we have any more portable units?”
“No, that was the last one!” Palamo wailed.
“You didn’t have any extras?”
The doctor began to pace, his hands trembling as he searched for the words. “We don’t usually take on this many Nassai!” he stammered. “Under normal circumstances, only half of these tanks would be in use. But with the Council’s decree that there will be no new Justice Keepers, these poor babies have nowhere else to go!”
“What?”
Palamo didn’t hear Anna’s outburst. He turned abruptly, marching back to her, his chest heaving with every breath. “We tried to send them back to Laras!” he went on. “But every time
