Had Rosa been able to blush, she would have. I can fix that, she said to both women. But what do you mean 'make a plan'? What's happened?
Briefly Ghia explained the attack and subsequent siege. Rosa could feel the sorrow fresh in each woman, an ocean of it that rivalled the size of the sea where she had grown up. She bowed her head and placed a hand on each woman's shoulder, saying without words she was there for her students.
A few moments passed, and then Rosa led the two women down to the lawns underneath the North Tower, where, only a few months ago, a furtive-looking major had buried a kettle beside a rockshield.
Jester
0330 hours
It was the dull throbbing ache of her left arm that eventually woke her.
She was lying on her back on a hard surface. A headache pounded in her temple
