16
I MET UP WITH the rest of my association after I left Amarru’s office.
While I ate the noodle salad Thayu had saved for me, I informed them of the things Amarru had told me. The expressions were dark around the table.
I wasn’t sure they cared about Earth joining gamra in the same way I did, but they did care about losing entities from gamra and they cared about Earth because I did. They also understood how the Pretoria Cartel’s blocking activities could reflect badly on gamra and the Exchange. And they knew of the danger posed by the Tamerian activities which might or might not be related to the Aghyrian ship.
“So what should we do?” Nicha asked me.
“In the short term, I can only stick to the plan: I will go the assembly and give that talk on what we discovered. We should keep our
