It had been harder to keep track of the maneuvering within the Sioux Nation’s military and governmental apparatus, but in time she’d picked out a few "indirect indicators," which had given her some clue about what was going on without getting her close enough to trigger an alert. It had certainly looked as though Mary was right—the Sioux military had been doing some major housecleaning. The Office of Military Intelligence had undergone a massive purge—a "restructuring," according to the bureaucratese. Most of the big players in the OMI had been transferred elsewhere in the military complex, but some—including the head honcho, one Sheila Wolffriend—had simply vanished. Gone, never to be heard of again. End of story. Then the military had just closed ranks, and that was it. Business as usual there, too.