***The two Komarsi walked quickly to Heklos's office, one floor up in a cornersuite; the T'swi had stopped at his own desk, in what had been a roomservice alcove when the building had been a hotel. He took a small, critical sip. He got an appointment with the ambassador for the nextmorning at 07. The other, grenades dangling, sat down in thelobby, where he could watch the stairs and the hall beyond them.
A few escaped us; we lost their tracks in asnowstorm. How'sthat? Uh, fine. At themoment he was climbing the stone stairs that slanted up the outer northwall of a tower. While they were denying it, some T'swa frog-marched fourmore captives in.
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