Chapter 19

“That happened to a few of us,” Tasia admitted. “They made us deal with the problem.”

“As they should. If you couldn’t handle orders against your fellow subjects, then how would you ever handle orders in the field?” Lynn led her across the room to another door. “Give me a second, would you?”

Lynn stepped through the door and vanished. Tasia could hear the steady cadence of her footsteps, followed by a cry of surprise. She took a few steps back to make room as Lynn shoved a younger man through the door.

“This is your post,” she hissed, grabbing the man by the back of his neck and slamming him into a nearby desk. “Your absence here could be the death of us all.”

“I’m sorry, Master…” he didn’t get another word out, because she grabbed him by the hair and slammed his face into the metal so hard that it knocked him out.

Lynn shook her head, a sneer on her face. It disappeared when she looked at Tasia “When you got your briefing, did they mention the situatio