It was Piers who spoke while I dove into Femke's magic and started digging. "The Steam Union has full jurisdiction over this prisoner," he said, as calm as my mother. I really had to take lessons from the two of them on how to hide my feelings behind that kind of precision. "Any attempt the WPC makes to liberate him from our possession will be seen as an act of war." And his temper was showing. So maybe he wasn't the best one to teach me after ...