Clear Glass took Kali eleven hours to build, and every one of them was boring.
That was the point. The best traps were boring. A trap that looked clever made people careful. A trap that looked like ordinary paperwork made them greedy.
So she wrote a schedule.
It was a real schedule, almost. It described the next phase of the western gate project: a second working frame, designated Frame Seven, to be assembled in secret over the next fortnight and brought online for the Pyrros–West freight route. Delivery dates, crew rotations, security shifts, power requirements. Ninety-four percent of it was true. Anyone who had worked on the gate project would recognise every name, every procedure, every piece of jargon.
The other six percent was the location.
