Brendan spent the morning nearly motionless at his desk, but he was actually almost frantically busy as he verified that everything was in place.
For the last day messages had flown back and forth between him and his family members, with a frequency that would probably have anyone who might be monitoring the messages on high alert. He hoped that whoever noticed would assume that they were spaceship race related, instead of human race related, but he wasn't counting on that.
The grim news was that an anti-original movement fit more than just the pattern Brendan had traced. The King had already been aware of a certain amount of prejudice among the top corporations, and the Queen reported that she had already dealt with several outbreaks of actual violence against mixed couples.
