Or maybe it wasn’t. Sly had never kept a close eye on international affairs—except as they directly impacted the shadows, of course—but she couldn’t help but pick up rumblings here and there about what was happening on the international front. There was continuous squabbling between the UCAS and the Salish-Shidhe nation about the status of Seattle. Some hotheads on the tribal council wanted to usurp control of the city. And, since that would deny the UCAS its last port on the Pacific Coast—and its sole gateway to Japan and Korea—the boys and girls in D.C. were scrabbling for a way to stop that from happening.