from a ship at the coast. But there was no telling when one big enough would come along. They had to go to Berenice.
"Damn," said Spyder. "I should have asked Lucifer for some of those jewels lying around the construction site. We dont have a penny to buy a ride. "
"Well be fine," Shrike said.
"You think?"
Shrike leaned on Spyders back, running one of her hands through the hair on the back of his head. "The Count was right, you need to think bigger. "
They ran into the first spotter a couple of miles out from the city. The boy had been asleep, and his loose dun-colored robes blended into the sand. He awoke suddenly and screamed as Cornelius nearly stepped on him, startling Spyder, Shrike and Lulu almost as much as the giant spider had scared him.
The boy ran ahead for a few paces, shouting something to them before stopping, raising a pistol over his head and firing off a flare. He began running after them again, but fell far behind Cornelius relentless footsteps.
"You dont think theyre a lynch mob, do you?" asked Spyder. "For me doing over that memory?"
"I dont know," said Shrike. "Lets just check it out. If anyone tries anything, Cornelius will run us to the coast. "
There were other spotters as they closed in on the city, gawkers, too. It all made Spyder nervous, but as they rode past, each group smiled and waved at them, or ran alongside for as long as they could. No one seemed too upset to see them. Better yet, Spyder thought, none of them looked like cops.
A group of twenty or thirty dignitaries met them at a wadi just beyond the city walls. Spyder guessed that they were dignitaries. They had that self-important air about
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