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"The source no longer exists" It wasn’t the truth, but he had no intention of allowing the doctor or anyone on his staff to know from where he had obtained the sample "Don’t worry about it Lawson isn’t a complete idiot; he kno valuable it is He’ll either try to sell it or use it as a bargaining chip Put the acquisition in stasis for now, and we’ll do e can to keep Lawson alive" He glanced out at the technicians working at various stations "I’ll send the engineers up to --has anyone not assigned to the lab been co to you about the acquisition lately?"

Kirchner’s expression became shuttered "As I told Chief Delaporte, unauthorized personnel are not permitted entry to the lab As for me, I don’t discuss the ith my staff; I wouldn’t answer questions from an outsider" His cold eyes shifted "If internal security has been coinate here"

Genaro nodded "Thank you, Doctor"

Genaro spent the next hour in his office studying Lawson’s medical tests and the projection reports on the transerum

Delaporte knocked once and ducked his head inside "I’m sorry to interrupt you, sir, but I need to speak with you"

Genaro gestured for him to come in and set aside the chart "Is it the detective?"

"No, sir, I handled that and went about my business We have another situation" His security chief took out a handkerchief, unwrapped it, and placed it on Genaro’s desk In the center of the linen was a high-capacity USBfound this in one of the men’s rooms It was taped to the back of a commode I copied the contents onto a duplicate stick and swapped them out"

Genaro didn’t touch it "What’s on it?"

"Internalinformation, and transportation schedules, all dated within the last five weeks," Delaporte told him "There’s also a copy of every document we have on Bellamy Thaton the inside here could have warned her"

"Perhaps" Genaro regarded the memory stick "Did you find any prints or DNA on it or the toilet?"

Delaporte shook his head "No one has tried to retrieve the duplicate yet, but we’ll continue to monitor the traffic in and out The public has access to this restroom; it could be a handoff frohtful "This thief doesn’t bother to encrypt the files he’s stealing, but he takes great care not to leave any trace evidence What does that tell you?"

"He knoe keep prints on file for everyone orks here," Delaporte said

"If he has an ounce of intelligence, he’s already switched out the prints in his personnel files" Genaro used the handkerchief to pick up the memory stick and sniffed it "No, thisbehind a single trace of his DNA Can you guess why, Del?"

His security chief frowned "He knoe can use it to figure out who he is"

"I would say our thief can’t afford for us to obtain a saently wrapped up the stick "And there is only one reason for that"

Rowan paid a visit to the library before Jessa, flopping down in a chair and watching in silence as Matthias collected the books he needed froth she spoke "First we trust her with the run of the place, and noe’re going to tell her about the super-freaks of the Dark Ages Dragging your feet a little, don’t you think, boss?"

He lifted one of his feet "I walk as I always do"

"I’ain," she told hi into this too fast"

"Jessa is one of us" He turned to look for Brother Ennis’s journal "She should know all of it"

"I guess thatto tell her about you and your adventures Too bad we don’t have a lab like GenHance’s" She glanced up at the glass-encased sword over the fireplace "A microscopic exas up between you two Unless she decides it’s all too much and flips out, like I almost did"

She never needled hi you want, Rowan?"

"Besides her out of here?" She spread her hands "Not a da, boss" She removed a folded paper froe to hiain"