Aurelia's frown deepened as she listened to the commotion in the garden, carefully storing the things they had to say about her in her ever sharp memory.

"I had dropped a microchip there before carrying you up. Do you see it now? You can't trust anyone. They might claim to be my people, working for me and receiving generous remunerations from me, but greed has turned their minds away from me. Carefully spun lies, fuelled by their greed and jealousy, has become a veritable platform for the enemy to sneak in here. We don't have allies among those workers. We're all alone, we have to carefully watch every step we...