If Thayu were here, she would still find a way to conceal a weapon, but when Veyada said he wasn’t armed, he wasn’t armed. And it felt disturbing and naked. I hated guns, but I found their presence on the belts and arm brackets of my team comforting.
Because there were fewer of us than yesterday, we all fitted in the lift, including the trolley with the parts of the drum. Idda was wriggling under Kita’s jacket. I would have expected her to be fast asleep for hours.
Lenka Trnkova waited in the ground floor hall. She looked a lot more formal today, in a blouse with the buttons done up to under her chin.
She said, “Dr Cross is waiting for you.”
Through the glass wall at the front of the foyer, I could see that the crowd had swelled. All the empty space between the tents was filled up with
