For a moment, Skirata’s natural suspicion tugged at his sleeve and said: Yeah, good idea, get all the gang in one place, and warn Vau so he can tip off Zey. Not knowing now who he could and could not trust got to Skirata in a way few things ever could. But that was their aruetyc game—divide and rule, sow distrust, set Mando against Mando by adding a little poisonous doubt to the mix. If Vau’s set me up, and this is some clever double-double game, then I’m going to take my time killing him. The trouble with war-gaming double-cross scenarios like this was that there was no logical point at which
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