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OH CRAP.
All of the guards—there were at least twenty—were much taller than any of us. They wore armour and helmets that hid their faces. It was impossible to tell if these were men or women. All of them wore the same type of belts with equipment that Sarlin and his mates wore. They carried nothing that looked like a weapon but I was sure they were armed in some way.
I was guessing that the last time I’d seen these people, they’d been asleep in the pods in the big ship in orbit. Those pods that were now empty. Jayten had tried to get us to believe that the occupants had died. Heck, even Sarlin had believed it.
The door to the building, that Reida had spent valuable effort opening, had shut again.
Both Thayu and Nicha tensed their hands around their weapons.
“Don’t shoot,” I said i
