"Why tell me?"
"I got eight hundred gun boys in this building alone. They know you're here. The hack is watched, the whole route. You can't get through."
"What do you care?"
"If the boys bust in here after a while and find me like this.... They'll bury me with the wires still on, Maclamore."
"How do I get to the roof?"
He told me. I went to the right corner, pushed the right spot, and a panel slid aside. I looked back at Arena.
"I'll make a good sailor, Maclamore," he said.
"Don't crawl, Arena," I said. I went up the short stair, came out onto a block-square pad.
Arena was right about the rotos. Eight of them. I picked the four-place Cad, and got Stenn tied in. He was coming to, muttering. He was still fighting Arena, he thought.
"... I'll hold ... you ... get out...."