Jonas had found a very different home from the one he had left behind. The Burning Cliff mission now looked like an imposing fortress, with fires burning at all times on its reinforced walls, lookouts in every tower and several barricades set up in the path leading to its huge doors. The Tex’co symbol, the five-pointed star with an upside-down T inside, which was displayed in his chest allowed him to elude the guards at the entrance with little fuss, but even inside the walls he didn’t quite feel at home. Something had changed, and it was not only the western part of the settlement, which seemed to have been wiped out by an earthquake and now was under hasty