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Oh, yes, it is If I lose, it very e of irritation He couldn’t guarantee a win Not against Medusa Not against the single person who could battle hi more and more at the last minute

I can because, in case you haven’t noticed, I have the upper hand here I have you by the throat, and if you’re wise, you won’t forget it

His teeth began grinding together For a e to rip off the interface node, consequences be da over all those skyboards gloith logos he heartily despised, gazing at the sinister eye logo of Obsidian Corp

Rage rocked through hiaze froerov’s work: the surveillance caaze drifted upward toward the drones hovering over thees of the people in the crowd for future databases He saw thethe steps up to the Capitol, all to protect those legislators put in office by voting erov protected all those companies, maintained the security and the surveillance state that let thenaled and hooked a neural wire between her interface node and the Capitol’s server, To of his neural processor and he jolted out of hinals, strings of zeros and ones, glowing electronic systems

Then with a rush, To Her electronic sensors were focused on Medusa’s ship

Go on, Heather thought at hie it

Tolowing neon array of skyboards, and a great certainty swelled in his chest that this tiain

To in my systems? Go after her

Toed by the crowd For a fleetingwith her processor, seeing her legs crossed carelessly in front of her in the empty room near the Rotunda, thethe expectant, proud faces of thetheir pretty little perforurdur Vitol, Joseph Vengerov and Pandita Rumpfa, Prince Abhallera

His heart began to scorch his chest, seeing the masters of the world all in one place, and the full apparatus of the police state ready to protect the, and people simply had let them People had meekly surrendered the world to theh, finally have reason to leave them be But Toerov possessed the entire rest of the Earth, and the solar systeround directly under his feet, simply because it was his and not theirs That’s the sort of people they were There was never enough for theh, she needed a win Fah, she needed to be the most famous That’s why she’d smeared the other CamCos to the media; she hadn’t wanted success, she wanted the other CamCos to fail If he won Capitol Summit for her, she’d return with another demand down the line, and another That’s the sort of person she was And surrendering was never going to appease her There would always be so more she wanted to force out of him

Tom made his decision then

Heather, he sent to her

What, Tom?

Here it comes

Then he seized control of Heather’s weapons, aira skyboard, and blasted it to pieces There was no reaction froraceful arc to its next target Obsidian Corp’s board Yes He launchedhail of flaments of skyboard rained down about the ship as Heather screamed at hireare of the way she was reaching up to tear out the thought-interface node