Go and Jhai stared in silence at the hole in the plexiglass wall. The cell in which Lara had so recently been confined was now empty. Go did not want to look at what lay behind them, at what had once been a man. Go's own voice sounded very loud in the ringing quiet of the room.
"I thought you said this was secure?"
"No one's ever got out of here before. Well, apart from one. Zhu Irzh, in fact. He'd been given a drug, he wasn't himself."
"So it's not as secure as you thought." Hard not to sound accusatory and Go didn't see why he should be too bothered about Jhai's feelings right now.
"No," Jhai said shortly. "It isn't."
"There's no point in getting Chen over here, now."
"No. There isn't. But he'd better know. We'll need help in tracking her down." Jhai frowned. "I wonder if she's headed for Hell."
"She'll have it in for you, now," Go said, trying to keep too obvious a satisfaction from his voice. From the look that Jhai shot him, he thought he probably hadn't succeeded.
"Yeah, she will. This won't help family relations, that's for sure. I ought to get in touch with Agni, too, tell him what happened."
Go looked at her curiously. "How easy is that?"
"He's on the phone, Go."
But before she could contact her cousin, and bring him up-to-date, someone called Jhai herself. It was Chen.