He brushed the thought aside in the face of how she looked. "Later. Are you going to be okay?"
She nodded, the twitching abated. "For the moment. The surveillance drones are only equipped to immobilize their target for a while. It would have been worse if the thing had more time. But it would have reported our location, so my home's not safe anymore. But we ought to have enough time to get a few things."
"Your home?"
She gestured in the direction where the drone had crashed. "It's that way. Let's go. You take the controls."
He complied, and they set off through the swamp.
She leaned over the edge and scooped up the drone as they passed, and dropped it on the raft. "Spare parts. Might come in handy."
"Yeah, yeah. I get it. You're a maker. So who are we up against?"
Maira grimaced. "Don't laugh. It's the international banking consortium."
"The what?"
"Bankers." She was deadly serious. "You didn't really think national governments were top dog, did you?"
"All right, all right. Back up. A lot. They're who destroyed the Barrage?"
"In a manner of speaking, yes."
"As an act of war?"
"Well, yeah."
"How?"
She looked at him as one might a backward child. "You rented an airboat yesterday, didn't you?"
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