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"Wow," Tom murmured "We’re superhuman We’re actually superhuht?"

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE MALFUNCTIONS HAD spread outside the sienerals came for a status update with General Marsh, and the trainees they passed reacted as if to so their hands over their noses and running away As enerals the sanaled Blackburn, who isolated the exotic coh the entire systeruntled over it, and it became a black eye for General Marsh--and for Blackburn himself, especially when he couldn’t find the source of the virus

Blackburn was in a thunderous rah toto Wyatt, Blackburn also thought that ht be a ploy, too, to throw off suspicion frouess who had motive to see Blackburn fired Obsidian Corp had already put out feelers with the Senate Defense Co a return to their old role of softriting at the Pentagonal Spire--citing the recent software issues as evidence it was necessary

Blackburn began watching To soain, Tom wondered uneasily if Blackburn had an idea of what he’d been up to Medusa still hadn’t responded to hi to the Citadel’s systeht into her neural processor Then he headed to Calisthenics They went through the usual routine for Mondaydrills and an exercise where they reached doith exosuited hands and picked objects up, then put the of Medusa as Vik sers, and Blackburn said, "Congratulations, Ashwan, you set off that boot to experiment withclothes They were called centrifugal clae activated, adhering the clamp to any nearby surface Wyatt used theot stuck, since she was too anxious to climb back down, even with a half-dozen people below her ready to catch her Toyback ride down, but Blackburn ordered hiround Then he started after her Blackburn reached her side at the top of the wall, spoke quietly to her, and they started down side by side, one clamp at a time

Tom was the last to stash his exosuit at the end of Calisthenics Most trainees lowered the hanger, stepped onto it with the exosuit, then clier part and juh, then took the suit off Whenever he caught hiave hi around the Spire--but Tom did it, anyway

Just as To happened: one of the suits came to life on its own, and two metal, exoskeletal hands shot down, seized hiasped in shock, legs kicking out wildly, and words flared before his vision

WHY DO I KEEP SEEING ANGRY GNOMES?

To, his initial worry about an AI doolee that he’d finally gotten his reply "You’re here! It’s so great you’re here!" he said to the air

STOP sending gno hi him a scare "Medusa,to contact me

"Online Once Only once Hear , Mordred Stay out of our systeain, I will coht kill no them everywhere!

"No," To it is But I still believe you won’t kill me over it People kill over nomes"

I AM NOT JOKING!