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Toave a start She knew his name? How did she know his name?

A fierce smile crossed the lips of Medusa’s avatar "I was in your system already, so I looked at your personnel file"

"See, that’s not fair You et to check for yours"

"I know It’s so unfair for you"

It was He felt al of her If he just had her nae difference "Come on, you could tell me your name"

"Why would I do that?"

"Because if you don’t, Medusa, I’uesses"

"Every single word can basically be used as a nauess, so feel free"

"Fine" He holstered his gun "Is your na’ Is it ‘Rong’?"

"Why ‘Rong’?"

"I ’ once It was the na"

She stood there a hed "Yeah, I know This is what I un battle now"

"Oh, yes," To dust, and To Capitol Summit vividly Remembered her face, her burned skin, and what he’d done--the way he’d thrown that at her to win He was a scu He knew it

"So before I kill you," Medusa said, "I’ive you a chance to explain why you were so persistent in trying to contactto do that again"

Too first, then I’ll go"

She nodded "After you faced treason charges for being in contact with me, someone on your side leaked back toMywith an Aid "How did they find out?"

She brushed off the question dismissively "I’m sure someone on our side paid off a senator on your side"

Touessed His dad was right--congressiance to their bank accounts and cut the lip service to country

Suddenly, he grew cold "What did they do to you?"

"It doesn’t matter," she said harshly "It’s over TheI do, everywhere I go, every time I hook in So you see nohy your repeated visits into our syste my life difficult"

"Yeah" Tom felt numb "I see"