necessary evil. To put it mildly, he didn't like him very much. However, now it seemed that the irritation and malice had disappeared from the commander's tone.
‘Unfortunately not,’ the general shook his head. ‘What’s worse, while gathering all the data from the region, it turned out that several of our informants and two field agents have also disappeared. In general, the unit dealing with North Africa is now in chaos. They are trying to find out what happened and, more importantly, when it happened. We have conflicting information.’
‘Do you suspect internal activity?’ Bleist asked with slight disbelief. He didn’t want to believe that someone would work against the Guard from within. It was not possible.
‘No, probably not,’ Leigher muttered. ‘More likely someone who figured us out locally. Since this morning, we’ve been... No, since yesterday, we’ve been checking information from all our posts, but something like this only happened in Bushtabhar. Something bigger is going on there. The problems between the Watch and the army are only superficial.’
‘It seems there's also a problem with the governor there.’
‘With that idiot?’ The general snorted, not even trying to hide her contempt. ‘Show him his place and tell him to stand at attention. I assure you, that's the least of your problems.’
Darius, however, remained of a different opinion. He did not think much of Warrant Officer Murphey, but his actions spoke volumes about his hot-headedness and lack of common sense. Add to that his father pushing the whole family down the hole dug by his son, and you couldn't expect anything good from this man. Throw in his paranoid tendencies, and you had an explosive mixture.
One could only hope that his subordinates had more common sense and self-preservation skills. Only that could save the enclave from a repeat of Irving. It was hard to swallow, but that's what the facts presented to Darius indicated.
‘Never mind him.’ Leigher waved his hand and then summoned one of the other officers of the Azure Guard. Bleist knew him only by sight and remembered that he was in charge
