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Jedrik-within chuckled.

Yes, with juggernaut certainty, Broey would create a single target for BuSab.  And Jedrik had refined the simulation pattern by which Broey could be anticipated.  Broey would find McKie waiting for him at the proper moment.

Behind McKie would be a new BuSab, an agency directed by a person whose memories and abilities were amplified by the one person superior to Broey that Dosadi had ever produced.

Standing there in the now silent arena, McKie wondered:

When will Broey realize he does our work for us?

"When we show him that he failed to kill me!"

In the purest obedience to Gowachin forms, without any sign of the paired thoughts twining through his mind, McKie bowed toward the surviving jurist, turned, and left.  And all the time, Jedrik-within was planning . . . plotting . . . planning . . .