Perry didn’t particularly like keeping a prisoner, but if he was going to have one, it was best that it was someone like Doctrix Grayspear. He didn’t like her, and felt no sympathy for her. So far as he was concerned, her unethical experiments had caught up with her, and that was a good thing — he would go back to destroy the device later, or at least pull it inside the shelf space, though he couldn’t imagine ever having much use for it.Anaksi was in a separate part of the shelf, an impromptu living area, and once Grayspear had been pulled in, he went over to explain things to the Yuuksen woman.“We’ll be quiet,” said Perry. “She can hear us. Don’t use my name.” He spoke Eshkee for the sake of security. “I was attacked, and Queenie got away, but that means that she’s in the city. We didn’t have much chance for conversation.” He had, in fact, tried to kill her, but he thought he’d have trouble explaining that he’d almost put a bullet in the head of their one lead on her people. “What we need now is some understanding of how to reverse what Queenie has done, and then some line on how to find her, what she’ll do next. We need to dive into Grayspear’s recollection, though I think I got the end and the beginning of it.”“But they’re here, right?” asked Anaksi. “They’d be close to the city? Just outside it? She wouldn’t leave them, would she?”“I don’t know,” said Perry. “It doesn’t seem like she has much control over them, unless she’s hiding her power level. I’m not sure why she would even bring them with her, what purpose that would serve. It’s something that I’m missing.”“I want to talk to her,” said Anaksi. “I have the power too.” (...)