It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks since Peter made the Free People of Earth public. The most immediate troubles, of course, involved the territories he had eked out within the boundaries of other nations. Peru and Sudan had not declared war, but that was only because they had no one to declare war against: neither country ( Read more... )

They reached the east gate of the compound early in the morning. As promised, an IF security detail was there waiting for them, including a full hazard squad - of which only one would join them. Bean seemed largely unflapped by the entire ordeal, and Peter followed suit in pretending ( Read more... )

( Is this Bean or Petra? Or both? )