The minister tells the queen that the trade accord between the two countries has gone well. He tells her that he is happy to hear that she is alive and well. The minister says that he has no idea what is going on, but that he met with the scu's group and took the communicat tions probed from them. Before that, he says, he claimed that he was on venus, but now someone cracked the passen register and the information is inaccessible. He says that if he gives him a log of everything that happens, he might find that her charges against her are proven wrong. He asks the minister to keep his red tape away from him. He wonders if there were spies among the doctors and engineers, and wonders if they were trying to prevent the re-start of the necro-soldier production. He adds that he could have arranged a proper welcome for two exalted guests, but there is no mark left behind. He is not sure if he has been turned into a corpse, but he says that the only person that the enemy was afraid of was the teacher, who was killed after his fall at the Zott