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Adtvenis word for “rat”. Despite the insult the Adveni placed upon the word, the rebels stood behind it, and within the space of a single heat, Belsa had been scrawled all over the city as a warning that the Veniche would continue to fight against the invasion.
    Sticking her head in through the doorway of the first car, but not climbing up, Georgianna waved to Jaid, one of the other medics, noting that her cropped auburn hair was sticking up in every direction above Jaid’s thin, pointed face. As usual when working on the Way, Jaid had set herself up in the car they used for simple injuries, where people could be treated before being sent home. She could always tell how busy Jaid had been during a shift by how spiky her hair had become. The older woman had a habit of running her fingers through it and twisting short locks around her fingers while she thought. Her moss-green smock was stained and two buttons at the hip had come undone. Apparently, it had been an incredibly busy shift. Jumping up from her position on the floor, Jaid came towards them and thrust out a sheaf of papers.
    “You on for a while, Georgianna?”
    “Yeah, planned to be here all day, but I got a call and…”
    “It’s alright,” Jaid interrupted. “But I’ve got to head out for a few hours. Si’s not come home.”
    She squeezed Georgianna’s shoulder briefly and disappeared back into the car.
    Georgianna glanced at Wrench, raising an eyebrow.
    “So you’ve not seen him?” he asked, stepping forward to look into the car.
    Jaid reappeared at the doorway, tugging a jacket onto her shoulders.
    “You’ve not seen him either?”
    Wrench frowned and shook his head.
    “He didn’t show up for guard’s.”
    Jaid looked between the two of them as she chewed on her bottom lip. Reaching up, Wrench held his hand out for Jaid to grasp as she jumped down from the car.
    “Don’t worry,” he assured her. “I’m sure it’s nothing. He probably just forgot, you know how guard shifts are being changed all the time.”
    “Si doesn’t forget things like that.”
    “Not usually, but if you’re really worried, I’ll help you look.”
    “Really?”
    “Of course. Come on, let’s go.”
    The sigh that slipped past Jaid’s lips was not believable as relief, not while her eyes darted from Georgianna to Wrench and back again. Georgianna wasn’t sure that she trusted the casual calm in Wrench’s expression either, though he was far more convincing than Jaid.
    “Good luck,” she murmured.
    She watched as Wrench and Jaid set off down the line, two hurried steps of Jaid’s to match every one of Wrench’s long strides. Shaking her head, she turned and ambled down the Way towards the last car where she suspected she would find Lacie Cormack.

  4 Down the Way
     
Georgianna grasped the side of the open door and hauled herself up into the car at the end of Medic’s Way. Inside, patients who needed more permanent care could get more peace than the comings and goings of the other cars. The lamps were turned low, and it took her a moment to locate the slim girl kneeling on the floor at the end of the car. She was bent over an unconscious man on a bed.
    Georgianna held the papers under a nearby lamp and flipped through to the man’s notes, reading them quickly. Out of all the protocols required on Medics’ Way, the notes were the one Georgianna found hardest to complete. She was great at working in an emergency and even figuring out what to do if they didn’t have the correct supplies, but by the time she remembered to make her notes for the next medic on shift, she’d usually forgotten what she’d done throughout the day. Luckily, where she failed, Lacie was brilliant at keeping track. Maybe it was a natural attention to detail, or perhaps an effect of living with Beck, who had notes everywhere. Either way, the girl was a wonder at helping her keep everything up to date.
    “He spiked another fever,” Lacie muttered, her wide blue eyes fixed on