Felix noticed the wheels first.
They were good wheels, built for weight and uneven approaches. Four workers kept the covered frame level while a technician watched the receiving end clear the turn.
An expensive piece of equipment had arrived at the academy with an armed escort and a handling plan.
Then the covering came back.
The contact rails lay where his body would go. The rest support, receiver assembly, and prepared return connections matched the drawings on his workshop table.
One strap secured the apparatus to its transport. Another belonged to its proposed occupant.
Felix looked from one to the other.
“Under which authority?”
