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"Wouldn’t an unauthorized religion that’s involved with sacrificiala little ain "Theoretically, but a grain warehouse wouldn’t Having so ‘serious’ would attract attention"

"You have some pretty serious security on your house"

He handed over the device "Because I know stuff like this exists If you don’t see five red lights, come back to me It’ll make this harder but probably not impossible"

"‘Probably’?"

"I can’t work miracles Good luck"

She went to the short side of the building and hoped she could et up it The implant responded to her tension, and she felt all her abilities intensify She could do this With a running start, she leapt up toward the wall, propelling herself higher when her foot iving her a brief moment of stabilization that let her other hand reach toward the roof Her fingers nearly didn’t ot enough of a grip to grasp higher with the other hand, and oneallowed her to catapult onto the roof

She landed gracefully on all fours, her heart racing The roof was large, with triangular peaks, but balance was no problem after what she’d just done She hurried across to the opposite side, settled onto her stohts shone up at her Reaching her ariven her and pushed the button The lights turned green, and a click sounded

As she juround, she tried not to think too hard about the kind of technology required to trip a system like this This wasn’t off-the-rack stuff, and Leo had most likely carried it off from his time in Internal Security, either physically orviolated on this trip were already nu on more The front door opened for her without resistance, and she ran back to retrieve Leo

"Did you even break a sweat?" he asked

"Did you want me to?"

They entered the warehouse, and Leo paused to send a signal back to Dos, not liking the lack of visibility The high, narros offered faint lighting, but most of the space athed in pitch-darkness Even the sht wouldn’t be able to light up the whole place, and that provided too many opportunities for attackers to hide

She barelytoward another panel near the inside of the door "I’e"

Meanwhile, Mae began a search of the facility Justin had given thens like silver daggers to more difficult ones like screens Mostly all she found were neatly stacked and organized bags of grain If there really was a cult hiding out here, it was an efficient one when it ca, but getting into the desk coht joined hers as she searched the room, and Leo stepped inside He turned on the screen and looked disappointed

"More basic security Probablyin it" Still, he sat down at the desk and began working whateveron the catwalk"

There wasn’t The only thing it provided was a good vantage to shine her light down on theof consequence presented itself, but at least it reassured her they truly were alone When she returned to theexcept fascinating records on corn hybrids," he said

The final exa, and she didn’t realize how many hopes she’d pinned on this trip until failure looked her in the eye With a heavy heart, she joined Leo at the entrance and e feeling welled up in her Sorasp--but not quite It kept slipping through There was sonize, but she didn’t knohat it was Ih her ?" Leo asked her

"This isn’t the kind of place a death goddess would have her terain? Yeah, I can see how that would detract frouy may have played him"