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Marsh nodded crisply, seeing that they were all done "You’ll notice there wasn’t rade There’s a sirades before you left for vacation This password unlocked them Now, trainees, take a moment to look at the map of the installation and chuck those chips into this bin here for reuse" He kicked a small box out frorade chips into the container None onal Spire in his neural processor The falowed across his vision center, showing fifteen floors of chro up froon, but when he zoo his head That couldn’t be right

The Spire had changed The Calisthenics Arena encircling the interiors of the second, third, and fourth floors now contained a massive room labeled ARMORY

That wasn’t possible He’d seen the upper floor of the Calisthenics Arena dozens of times There was no armory there He was sure of it

And then he looked over the other new sections: entire wings for ulars stationed in the Spire, an observation deck on the twelfth floor, sections of wall containing power relays or processor parts, and below the basement level of the Spire, there was a brand-new floor labeled Mezzanine

Wait He couldn’t have overlooked an entire floor for the last six months!

"You’ll notice there are new areas to the Spire," Marsh noted "These aren’t actually new They were always there Your eyes saw them, your ears heard about them, but we blocked them from your conscious brain--rendered them in a sort of stealth mode in your processor Certain sensitive personnel are also locked out of your processors As plebes, you hadn’t earned liberty of these areas of the installation Now you have This is a sign of our confidence in you"

To the passageway leading to the fission-fusion reactor So that’s where that was Another passage led to soress," Marsh said, "and you may not all becoet those processors reot promoted as plebes because you didn’t prove yourselves unsuitable for life here You will get pro in Upper Company"

Wyatt raised her hand, then dropped it quickly, re this wasn’t like a classroom At Marsh’s nod, she blurted, "Sir, if we’ve had areas blocked fros in the installation we can’t see?"

Sniggering froave a stern head shake, then said to Wyatt severely, "If there are, Ms Enslow, you will find out in due time e decide ant you to see them"

Wyatt fell silent

Then Marsh went on, "You’ll all have your first reets with Coalition executives this Friday Even those of you who don’t beco opportunity if you play your cards right"

Toe on their entire executive board, so that was one company that would never sponsor him He could use this chance to make a better impression with the other companies

As soon as they were disaze shot to Vik’s Toer spark in his eyes

"Guns?" Vik asked hiht away