Better late than never. My kind editor was able to post this for me at last. Thank you very much for your patience!
4:25
“Psht. Like we’re not going to see enough of each other’s faces. These are just for emergencies. It has a locator built in as well. Oh, and a watch.” He leaned over and peeled back the leather to reveal an interface. “Local time here, time/date in Rome here, wrist com talk button, locator here. Give me those a moment…there. We’re synched up. The com and locator only work in a ten-mile radius, though.” He put on his own. “All ready to go? This is the tricky part.”
The trio snuck down a back hallway.
“There’s no way Camilla will let us walk out the front door with all this stuff, and if we don’t sign out she’ll know we’re up to something. So we’ll start by dropping the bags out a side door.”





