She later delivers him a letter sealed with the Lantsov double eagle. Three weeks after the auction, Anika gives Kaz-now the leader of the Dregs-a report on the earnings at the Crow Club and the status of tourist traffic on East Stave. She holds up Wylan while Keeg beats him until Wylan tells Jan Van Eck part of Kaz's scheme for the auction. On the day of Kuwei Yul-Bo's auction, Anika and Keeg, disguised as deputized members of the Dime Lions on Kaz's orders, kidnap Wylan Van Eck and take him to one of the chapels in the Church of Barter. Anika signals to Nina Zenik when the merchants arrive at the Geldrenner for Jesper Fahey's presentation on Zemeni oil futures. In reality, they plant documents to entice Karl Dryden to come to the Geldrenner to invest in the fund. Dressed in stadwatch uniforms, Anika and Pim stop the messengers of Cornelis Smeet to search their bags. She challenges the rest of the Dregs, brandishing a long knife and asking, 'You a Dime Lion? Or are you Dregs?' Īnika and Pim accompany a wounded Kaz to the rest of the Crows at the Geldrenner Hotel, where Kaz outlines his plan to swindle the Merchant Council by making them invest in a false fund. Per Haskell makes a last-ditch attempt to keep control of the gang and inform Rollins of Kaz's coup, but Anika stops him at the door. Anika is the first to agree with Kaz when he tells the Dregs that siding with Rollins is not safe. When the Dregs beat Kaz on the stairs, Anika and Keeg yell at them to stop. Like the other kids Kaz brought into the gang, Anika disapproves of Per Haskell and the Dregs betraying Kaz in favor of the reward from Pekka Rollins and Jan Van Eck. Kaz tells her to go back to work at the Crow Club, and she scurries off. When Kaz returns to the Slat later, Anika tells him she heard a rumor that the Black Tips are already planning to move against the Dregs. Anika is one of the Dregs who gather at the eastern entrance to the Exchange while Kaz parleys with Geels from the Black Tips.

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