Sasha watches Ankat in momentary confusion. The galley's a perfectly reasonable place to talk, and she wants more tea anyway; why make a fuss about standing on the other side of the medbay?

Oh, nested hells. Ankat's technically second-in-command right now; he knows Sasha's supposed to be talking to Mishka, and he must also know that Iawa trained with the Vidona. Sasha can't blame him for not wanting to get involved. It's not like that, she thinks at him. But who the fuck knows what it will be like, if Mishka can't stop acting like this is a giant game, and Ashari decides to intervene.

"Avrayen asked me whether what Imsayed told him was true," she says to Iawa. "Do you have any idea what that was?"