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" - is being very careful not to do anything that ht narrow the focus of inquiry as to his, or her, identity," Faith couar at her side finally spoke, his thuot to be pissed if this rebel is leaking classified data"
"Yes" Anthony turned back to Faith "The Ghost was active while you were still part of the Net Do you recall the explosion at Exogenesis Labs?"
"The place where they’re theorizing about ie of defects?" She spit out the last word It was the label the Council used to describe those who refused to buckle under the ei brains and initiate Silence on an organic level"
Anthony didn’t react to her open eenesis strike killed two of the lead scientists on the implant team and destroyed months of work"
"Your Ghost isn’t afraid to kill"
Faith heard no judghn’s tone - her cat had killed to protect the innocent And children, the first victims of implantation should the procedure be put into practice, were the most innocent of all
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"It appears not The explosion was investigated by both Enforcement and the Council, but without active support from a majority of the populace"
"Why?" Vaughn asked, his body heat so seductive she found herself leaning ever closer to hih "Wouldn’t this implant make the Psy even more efficient?"
Anthony nodded "In a sense But the dissidents argue that Protocol I, while ensuring universal compliance with Silence, would have the unavoidable side effect of linking our ical level"
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That it already had an official na about a true hive ust that laced her words
"Yes It’s nothing that appeals to those of us who prefer to run our enterprises free of interference That would becoin to act as one entity" He picked up his organizer - the thin co the Psy "Frooals, but without knowing his or her identity, we can’t coordinate our efforts"
Vaughn leaned forward "The her the chance of exposure I say let the Ghost do his - or her - thing, and ride the wave it generates"
"Your conclusionthe end of the topic, Anthony brought up so for its latest prediction for a month Can you move it to the top of your list?"
Faith picked up her own organizer "I can try" She still hadn’t cracked the secret of bringing on visions to order It was beginning to appear that that was one thing the Council hadn’t lied about - ift that far
Anthony enda Half an hour later, they were done and she was hugging hiesture, but did pat her lower back once Only a former inmate of Silence could have understood the incredible impact of that act She had tears in her eyes when he pulled away and walked out the door
Barker, a DarkRiver soldier, aiting to escort him out of the pack’s financial HQ Located in don San Francisco, near the organized chaos of Chinatown, the building was both public and highly secure
"Co the luh brand of affection
It scared her soth of what she felt for hi, not a vision as such but a hint of how things ht be
That hen it hit her A true vision A split-second i to do with the Ghost It was about Brenna Death The SnowDancer was surrounded by death, her hands drenched in blood Whose blood? Faith didn’t know but she could smell the raw-one - so fast she wasn’t even left with an afterie on her retinas, much less any of the disorientation that soiven her nothing concrete, nothing she could share with Brenna, but it did serve to back up her instincts about what the other wohn, she returned to the topic at hand "Do you think I should contact the NetMind about the Ghost?" A sentience that was at home in networks of minds, the NetMind was the librarian and some believed, the policeman of the PsyNet Faith, however, knew it to be sofine alone You sure you want to mess with that?"