Chapter 20 Summary

Borlu convinces Tsueh to stay with Yolanda to protect her. he also convinces Yolanda that she has to trust him to get her to Beszel so that he can use his contacts there to keep her safe and get her away from all of this. Borlu goes downstairs to some empty apartments to watch outside before he leaves. He crawls out the window, walks to the street and blends in with the other pedestrians.

He turns his cell phone back on and all of the messages are from Dhatt. Borlu calls Dhatt and tells him that there is a lot going on, that he's found Yolanda and arranges for Dhatt to meet him in a public square. Borlu watches Dhatt for an hour to make sure nobody is following him, or that Dhatt isn't giving signals to anybody else, before Borlu approaches Dhatt...