Banichi said as they walked the corridor of the residency, bound for their own door, “proposes to visit us. He is at the crossover now.” Jase was at the point where he had met Gin, less than an hour ago. Gin had gone up to ship-folk territory to talk to Ogun and now Jase had come down bent on talking to him. The two movements might not be unrelated. For a certain amount of time now, Ogun would be safely occupied listening to Gin, and Jase, closely allied to second-senior Captain Sabin, had left ship-folk territory and come down to the interface to find out whether it was a good time. “Tell him come,” Bren said, and that happened. Jase, being third-senior captain and the ship-paidhi, had a certain protected status—being the only way Senior Captain Ogun could translate what the atevi half of the station was doing. But on his last shift, Jase had taken high and wide action getting the children and their parents out of the quarantined Reunioner section—not consulting the senior captain, who had been off watch and presumably asleep.
What do You think about Visitor: A Foreigner Novel?
