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And then he alking through a corridor, blank white walls around hih her eyes Weird Where was this?

You’re not authorized to see the Helix yet, Heather thought to him, so this is all censored

Heather srew uncomfortably aware of her in that way he did quite often He wondered why she’d leaked that stuff about the other Caotten all the attention she wanted being herself, looking like herself

How do you know about that?

He’d forgotten she was tuned into his thoughts Desperately, Toht, 11235Wyatt telling me about HeatherWait Wait, did I--

Enslow told you? There was nothing for a moment How does she know?

Co deal of this, Heather thought Like the others wouldn’t have done it if they’d thought of it Wait, I thought that Tom, I was tricked Those reporters tricked ht? Silence, and, So was it Ensloho found out about it?

The Fibonacci sequence hadn’t worked, so Tohts: Heather’s boobs It worked The subject consuht, Boys are such idiots, and stopped prying

He watched through her eyes as her hand plucked up a silvery ers twisted a dial in the very center, and the points lit, projecting soon around theit into the back of her neck like a neural wire

The flash of consciousness to the distant vessel was instantaneous Quantuled photons in the ship’s CPU instantly responded to the actions of their paired photons in the Spire’s CPU The vessel’s sensors registered in Heather’s awareness like an extension of her own body, and since Tom was hooked in with her, he felt it, too For a moment, Tom marveled at this, at how it all felt so much more vivid than the drone he’d interfaced with at Capitol Summit or even the way he’d interface and leap systeuely aware of the jerk in his distant body, the awareness he’d been thinking about that and he wasn’t sure how ht interface But even now she was hearing so about it

Toht pulse of a Pronetic bea pulse, whichHeather’s ship burned away its tiny store of en fuel to soar forward into position, and then the Promethean Array’s next beam hit the rear plates of her ship--and Toe of intense but incredible heat as the nuclear reaction triggered, exploding against the back plate of the ship and launching them forward into the black canopy of space

One by one, the other vessels positioned thenetic pulses hit the else, too The ships were conductive They used energy as propulsion but also conducted it forward so the ships behind Heather’s accelerated and, at the say forward and caused her vessel to accelerate even faster To how y the ship could tolerate, her ship in the lead of the cascade formation, the fastest