soldiers who were busy loading equipment and supplies onto horses, mules, and small skimmers. They never made major shifts in larger vehicles, not even at night. Sonny had access to Jefferson's satellites, whose military spy eyes had nothing to watch for in deep space, these days, but plenty to track on Jefferson's surface. So Kafari gave them as little to track as possible, and what little there was, she did her best to make innocuous.
The shifting of Kafari's headquarters would involve only one truck, three personal skimmers, and no more than a dozen pack animals, which would move in groups of two or three over the course of the next three nights. Some of them would amble more or less straight to the new headquarters cavern in a canyon several kilometers to the south, but only after looping through many other stops and layovers. Others would join them tomorrow night and still others the night after that, playing a slow-motion, deadly game of hopscotch under cover of darkness.
Kafari nodded to her people as she crossed the cavern, then climbed into the back of her command truck, which looked like a rickety, rusted-out produce truck with holes in the sides. It was crammed with the most sophisticated technology they'd liberated from Berran Bluff Armory. At the moment, it also held their "guest"—a supply agent from Vishnu who claimed to have good news that he would deliver to Commodore Oroton and no one else. He'd been stripped down to bare skin and had endured the most thorough body search Dinny Ghamal could conduct, a humiliating and painful process involving a fairly sophisticated arsenal of medical equipment, among other things. He'd come out clean. There hadn't even been a nanotech squeak anywhere.
They'd drugged him unconscious and brought him out here. Kafari would speak with him from the back of the truck, which he would not leave at any time, and then they would drug him again and take him back to town so he could return to Vishnu. Or they'd kill him, if the situation warranted it, and drop the body on some well-used game trail frequented by hungry jaglitch.
Kafari climbed into the back of the truck. Dinny Ghamal climbed