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It was necessary!

Given an adversary as potent as the ship, he had to take extreme measures He had to explore the liata had not even required sedation after eo, dashing off like that with only the minimal Celltape on her wounds?

She had returned naked, carrying her singlesuit

Oakes had heard the rumors that soata A coincidence, no more And the proof of it was that she wore no hashht like that!

He would have liked to prohibit The Gaood sense had agreed There was no way to prevent The Ga all the hatches Besides, The Gaata running the perimeter?

Certainly not!

Efficient da, the physical one He looked at the notes beside his left hand Unconsciously, he had addressed them to her

"Check on possible relationship betaxing of Alki and growth of ’lectrokelp Have Lab One begin two LH clones Map new data on dissidents - special attention to those associated with Rachel Deata even take his orders now?

The picture of Legata’s face fro back into his mind

She trusted me

Had she really trusted his about it were all that apparent? With anyone else, he would have laughed at such ata She was painfully different from the others and he had already taken her too far

Entertain as he had expected He recalled the first potent look of betrayal in her eyes when the sonics hit her The sonics had driven away the clones; they already had taken their entertainata Despite sedation, she could hear Murdoch’s coned to suppress her wil but she resisted Murdoch’s commands told her what to do, the clone was prepared, the equipment set - but even then, she had to be totally aith pain before inflicting anything like her own agony on the clone Most of the tiht out the holo scanner She had stared directly into the scanner, and the diave him no pleasure, no pleasure at all

She won’t reed, offered anything for the pain to stop Legata simply stared at the scanner, wide-eyed Somewhere in her, he knew, there had been awareness that she was totally helpless, totally subject to his every whi process He wanted her to be like the rest He could deal with that

But he had been unprepared for the shock of her difference Yes, she was different What a shock, finally discovering this nificent difference, to know that he had destroyed it Whatever private trust they one forever

Forever

She would never again trust him completely Oh, she would obey - perhaps even more pro with this knowledge Tense, distracted He had to force hi which coht

Presently, he drifted into his own peculiar arena of sleep, but it was a sleep haunted by the design on his cubby wall The design took on distorted shapes froata in the Screaht out ther an andtomorro