Chapter 23 AFTER LEAVING General Selidas’ office, Sady went back to his own. He bypassed the long line of claimants on the stairs deep in thought. After the door closed, he took a couple of dusty books from his bookshelf. They had sat there, pretty much untouched, since Lana was born. He opened the top book and leafed through the pages. Memories of disturbing times came back to him. Times when he’d worried about distributing sonorics suits to the people of the border regions, times when he’d had to sound the sonorics alarm, when people had to stay indoors and board up the windows. What should he do now? If the Aranian army used sonorics, Chevakia was pretty much defenceless. Distribute suits? The stocks of suits had been decommissioned. As far as he knew, a huge pile of them sat in a w

