An hour later, Clara pulled the food she had purchased from the Eskiman tradesman, gnawing on dried possum, the salt igniting her taste buds. She drank from her water skin and put these things back into her pack.

It wasn’t long before Clara found another scanner in the trees with her. This one she carefully opened and examined the wires. Sprite had shown her how to disable a few of the devices in use here without it being detected, and this was one of them. She slowly pulled out three of the wires, snipping all three and exposing the wires.