If I could provide you with a warden's communication device, would you be able to create a tap that would circumnavigate the filters?

[There's a stranger on the barge area--a harried-looking stranger, a young woman whose well-fed, cleanly nature doesn't quite fit the ragged clothes she wears ( Read more... )

Bela doesn't wander the barge so much as do a floor-by floor search of its rooms and facilities, excepting the upper floors. Every unlocked door tested, every occupied room (the ones she can get into in any case) skimmed for information on its resident and what they might have that she could use ( Read more... )