Chapter Thirty-Five
Thayu, Veyada and Nicha waited in the airy foyer of the building, accompanied by a bevy of uniformed guards. We kept silent as I re-joined them and were escorted out of the building to a van that took us the very short distance back to the gate.
Another, larger, van waited there, behind a line of uniformed motorcyclists holding back a crowd of onlookers.
We left the smaller van on the side facing away from the crowd, and briefly came into their view when being escorted from one vehicle to the other.
People shouted. I couldn’t hear their words, but they didn’t sound friendly or curious. We were in hostile territory. I didn’t know why I’d thought I could negotiate away more than a hundred years’ worth of division by just talking to people. They didn’t like us here. M
