The patrol leader led him to a section of the war camp that was separated from the main settlement by a low wall and an arrangement that he recognized, from Grur's knowledge of Morag security protocols, as a concealment posture — the kind of positioning you used when you needed people to be present but not visible to anyone conducting a casual survey of the camp's population. The settlement leader walked ahead of him and the patrol fell in at the rear and nobody explained anything until the gate in the low wall opened and the people on the other side looked at him.
They looked at the ring.
The silence lasted approximately four seconds, which was a very full four seconds.
