“You set me up,” I said at last. She looked at me. “What do you mean?” “You were talking around me all along, weren’t you? All of you. You didn’t bring me in until I’d been”—how had she put it?—“preconditioned. The whole thing was planned to throw me off-balance. And then Sarasti … attacks me out of nowhere, and—” “We didn’t know about that. Not until the alarm went off.”
