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Across the s roo her phone to drive the reappropriated drone Using his phone and the drone as a booster, they could link the coistrar’s office to the one in Silas’s lab without using the monitored fiber-optic lines With it, they’d have the distance to remain blameless, if not anonymous

The rest of their tools--lock picks, cay adapter, and DNA-destroying wipes--were asse for him, and Silas tried to concentrate as Peri looked over his and Su more about him than he was comfortable with

Anyone could tell he and Su time The two-roo of styles but a cos in boxes and leave to ith so Who did the co to? Who would keep the glasses, each chip having a story to tell? The towels on the rack she had insisted were too expensive? Who retained the picture of them at the amusement park, and ould have an empty spot on their coffee table?

He squinted at the unexpected anxiety, exhaling when Suht as he tried the new angle Suood atthe picture of them in the bumper cars back on the coffee table seeht as his, as if she were seeing so from her past in their happy faces "My dor the picture a last nudge to put it precisely where it had been "If I’"

Suo," she said, and Silas’s grip on her wrist tightened at the heartache in her eyes, the clear blue of thee "I’ll stay here Keep your back door open"

Allen looked up fro it like a nition deterrent around his eyes "You think three of us can do this?" he asked, handing the smut stick to Peri, who capped it off and dropped it into her waist pack

"We won’t have to," Silas said, fighting the tension "I just needthere" He sluot the circuit cleared and was able to pull the chipped bracelet froood," he said as he put it next to the speaker where Allen’s wristband lay The faint thuive the i over it would keep it at body temperature It was theirof opportunity and their alibi all at once

"I’ into his black jacket and checking the ties on his boots "Thanks, Silas"

"No problem" Silas stood as well, but his relief was short-lived He turned to find his satchel, but was distracted by his tablet chi As much as he wanted to see it, that could wait, and he bumped into Su her to be that close Her smile was a sad hint, and his ar "This will be quick like bunnies," he predicted, but it felt like a wish, a hope

"I know," she whispered, but even if they did this right, there were no guarantees

He held Summer’s coat for her, and as Allen and Peri waited iave one last look at the space that he and Summer hadlike exotic ancient warriors, with the battle paint around their eyes and across their cheekbones

"Let’s go," he said, and one by one they filed out before him Silas shut the door behind him and set the biometrics lock It feltacross the night-darkened ca students was obvious, and they skirted a drunken crowd at the fountain, slowing to a halt in the quiet of the deserted office building It was designated low-security, but there’d be soed the building and gave the door ca, he stepped back, and Suht over the door ," Allen said as he rubbed the excess caers "How come we don’t have this?"

"It’s still in development," Silas said, not surprised Allen had never seen it The science geeks were still tweaking it, but Silas thought it was perfect as it was, evaporating in thirty seconds and designed to block detail without attracting the attention of whoever atching the low of her phone lighting her face as she stood outside the caot connection No reason to think it won’t hold once we’re inside"

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