I wouldn’t need them if everything went according to plan. And there was no room for error in this kill or the one Armise was engaged in on the other side of the darkened United Union city of Amsterdam. I couldn’t believe two of the Committee members had remained in the same vicinity, let alone the same city, for this length of time. From the time that Grimshaw had handed over their names and locations to Jegs until Armise and I could get on the ground without the use of transport chips and without anyone tracking our movements, it had taken us nearly a month to cross from the East Coast of the States into the continental spread of the UU. If all the intel we’d gathered hadn’t pointed to them being two of the most inept members then I would have thought we were walking into a trap. Maybe their inclusion in the Committee had been a play by Ahriman all along as an early warning system. Trip wires of a sort. Because neither of them had moved or given any indication of being worried about their safety.
