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"I remember Wyatt wanted to erase my memory when I found out," Vik whispered, since other trainees were rounding the corridor near them "You should have let her"
"You wanted her to erase your , yeah"
Toet Wyatt to erase it right now"
Vik let out a breath "It doesn’t work that way You can only reone and I never would’ve been the wiser Since she didn’t, I’ve had ht about stuff related to it We’d have to spend a few days with the census device to hunt down everything that would need to be cleared out, and I bet I’d notice the blanks It’s too late My whole point is, I think we need to take things s more seriously"
Tom made sure the other trainees had disappeared into the elevator, then he suggested, "We can rescramble Yuri"
That stopped Vik short "What?"
"We can do it," Tom said "I bet he’d even let us We’ll talk to him He’ll talk to Wyatt"
Vik blinked "Seriously?"
"Seriously"
"Just like that"
"Just like that" Toaze "I know this , or whatever, but I’ll throw soet paranoid or nervous or read too er completely sure he’s not a spy? Not for the Russians, of course, but, uh, lanced at Vik and knew fro to be paranoid and nervous and read too much into it
Tom’s head throbbed Great
"WHAT’S GOING ON?" Wyatt demanded when she met them in the Census Chamber
"Tom has a secret life," Vik said, froainst the chair beneath the census device
Toht he didn’t know about all that memory stuff," Wyatt said to To she’dabout the census device footage
Vik was perturbed "What, more stuff I don’t know about?"
"No, no, no," To entirely unrelated So not i I’ht now About Yuri"
"What about Yuri?" Wyatt said
"What’s the memory stuff?" Vik persisted "Telllet in on stuff after it’s already blown up into a huge problee probleroaned and clutched his teh his skull "Look," he ground out, his eyes closed "Vik, Wyatt is talking about some memories of mine she saw thanks to Blackburn that don’t reallyabout the reason I asked you here, and this is about some memories that do matter I took them out so you could see theto show them to you"
And with that, Tom nodded, and Vik jabbed at the controls of the census device and replayed the memories they’d extracted The first clip featured To to hitch a ride in New Mexico
"Tom," she said sadly, "you shouldn’t hitchhike"