"The FMD don’t take a wound without returning it," the President said. "We thought we’d be gone by morning, and we thought, Hah, let ’em think he defected with us! Cute, huh?" He snorted. "The Senate were with us but two got lost. They’ll show up here, ’cause this is rendezvous. Justices Two and Three are looting, lifting some of that hot Shaper wetware. Good loot for us. We figured—we seize the exit. If we have to, we jump to the Consensus , naked. We could make it with just nosebleeds and gut ache, hard vacuum thirty seconds."