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DURING THE SPANISH Arlish strategy of hanging back and counting on superior guns and led a boarding party fro the blood from his shen boots creaked down the stairs to the cabin, and Heather Akron eed, decked out in the duke of Medina Sedonia’s ar about her shoulders

"Just in tiot here"

"I’m here" Tom raised his sword "You wanna do this or what?"

Heather shook her head "I lied earlier I didn’t want to see you for a fight There’s so tied, and crossed over to gaze through the roundedShe must’ve tweaked the sim, because he didn’t see the ocean or battleships Instead, he saw an ile froht of the census device "I want thathi

"That’s surveillance footage It should look fa a calmness he didn’t feel "Everyone knows Blackburn used the census device on me"

Heather drew closer, and he felt her breath tickle the back of his neck "Do you remember when Enslow and I had our little tiff last Dece cookie For a while, I watched what she was doing in the syste up dirt on her?"

"Yes, and it paid off I found this footage It wasn’t co, and they weren’t in the systeapsfor whatever she wanted to say

"That’s when I realized so, Tom," she said "There were two coe: Lieutenant Blackburn’s processor and yours That’s the reason I invited you to that jousting sie during the New Year’s simulation: Error: Connection lost Download paused 98 complete That had been her She’d plundered his processor

It hadn’t been Blackburn

Soshe knew Touess you know everything?"

"Oh, I know all about what you can do," she told him "I also know Lieutenant Blackburn’s kept it quiet--he hasn’t told the military, or even Obsidian Corp, which is funny, because I bet they’d love to research you"

To this for a reason, to set him on the defensive He supposed he should be alar froed "A reement I won’t tell a soul what I know about you, if you helpme, then"