Mei followed Audrey in silence, keeping a careful step behind her, close enough to show that she wasn't afraid the bit, far enough to feel like she had some small, meaningless control over the situation. Her eyes moved without her meaning them to, scanning the woman ahead of her.
Audrey was one of the names that carried weight around Brigantine. Not official weight, there were no titles or ranks in a world like this, but the kind of weight that came from people stepping aside when you walked through a room. She stood alongside Gaspar, Williams, and Romero in Callighan's inner circle, and that alone said enough. Mei had already crossed paths with each of those three and not one of them had left her feeling anything but uneasy. Audrey didn't break the pattern.
