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Sil's legs were sore from sleeping in the blind.
Sil spends the night in the tree, hiding from the Reivers and border patrols, the woman is a reiver, but also helps smuggle people out of the protectorate, scene where they remove the listening devices, nanochips?
on the way to the dock he see a scar from surgical removal?
Does sil even know about the broadcast devices?
The Arbella is being funded by a business group that wants Sil (former botanist) and Dean (former arachist leader) to search for new ways to harvest and use algae. That leads to the parties, the excessive armaments on the boat and a bunch of scientific equipment.
The boat rocked gently side to side as another wake passed under it. Sil stared out the starboard hatches at the moon still hanging low on the horizen, a milky orange orb.
part about dean's house in the red light district.
Nadar grounds commercial aircraft -- the airlines were the first to go because Nadar was, Waiben realized, nothing if not terrifyingly intelligent. Commercial airlines were the lifeblod of commerce and Nadar's only real enemies were those that were more powerful than him -- multinational corporations suddenly neutered by the inability to send their representative where they wanted when they wanted. And of course they caved because they failed to see the end game, they were stuck in a loop where money was the endgame and failed to think for even a second that there might be something far, far more important to money. That power might really, in the end, rest on a much stronger foundation than the simple abstractions of commerce.
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