Miho stops, within earshot of the men, if they were to raise their voices and the rain were to let up for a moment. There is a screen of foliage in front of them, thick and green, moving slightly in the gentle wind.

"If we can take them by thurprithe," she says quietly - the letter 's' carries further than any other sound - 'we can avoid having them trigger the alarm. The we can get tranthport and get out of here without any other trouble. I only thee three. . . You?"

She raises an eyebrow, looking sideways at them, keeping the building and it's complement of guards in her peripheral vision.