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"Theglinting on his chubby finger as he held the pliable wire out Silas took it, slu chair at the stupidity of it all The SWAT-size van se apartment, and the snap of ozone, electronics, and locker-roo in the oversize aisle, and the faint but insistent electronic whine of the floor-to-ceiling surveillance equiph his head
It didn’t help that he washis life on a shelf for who kne long Despite everyone’s belief that it was a three-hour job, Silas knew better Acquiring herher back successfully would take longer
"On its own, it has a reach of about four feet," Matt was saying, and Silas tuned out the slightly overweight tech geek, almost embarrassed at his enthusiasm "That’s why you need the phone, see? Just coil it up in a pocket out of sight¸ and the phone will boost it to aze slid to the white slab of plastic beside the duffel they’d prepped for hi out-of-date and clunky "All the way out here to your van?" Silas said, but Matt didn’t recognize his sarcasm The tech’s tie was loose about his neck, and the black pants and white shirt screaernail was notched to snap nicotine caps
"It’sneed-to-knoe’ll text No wires behind your ears to give you away Nice, huh?"
Silas sighed His fingers were too big to hit the phone’s tiny buttons Texting would be a pain in the ass "Can I use hast
"No!" he blurted, as if Silas was being stupid "It’s not just a phone It’s full of stuff you need! God! Why do they keep sending me newbies?"
Silas rubbed his aching head as he ied into the tiny bit of outdated electronics Tracker, certainly, addresses for safe houses, contact numbers, and apps to find the nearest coffee shop But it was too small for hi he wasn’t Besides, his phone was glass, the technology light-years ahead of what the alliance had
"Keep it," he said, and Matt fell back into his rolling chair, vexed "I’ his Dew,it into a show of frustration and disdain "It would be better if you wore it Sir"
"Why don’t you just hang a sign aroundlouder "You don’t think she’s going to see the buttons are too small for me to work? She is a finely tuned piece of paranoid intuition"