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“Just say yes, Mahir We have so ht now that you know a verbal contract will stand up in court, as long as I don’t test positive when they coly sulanced up froia’s favorite 40, and saw hiht, Shaun I accept”

“Good Welco from the start and I knohat it takes to activate a new account or reactivate an old one Leaning over the nearest blood-free keyboard, I called up an administrative panel and tapped in his user ID, followed by my own, my password, and my administrative override “It’ll take about ten -in to turn all the way back live” Just about as long as it had taken Georgia’s typing to degrade “Once you can get in, get in I want youevery inch of the site Draft any-daet your hands on—I don’t care what depart the feeds, and o You need to hire people, you hire people Until I cooal here, Shaun?”

I looked toward the screen, teeth bared in a grin, and he recoiled “We’re not letting theets buried It doesn’t”

For a ht protest, but only for a moment It passed as quickly as it had coet on that Are you about to do soht, Mahir”

“Good luck,” he said, and the screen went black

I had just finished loading Georgia’s gun when the interco downthe weapons locker shut before starting to fasten the buckles around my chest

“—there? I repeat: Shaun, are you in there?”

“Steve, ht at the sound of his voice “Dude, you’re like a cat! How ot, anyway?”

“Not as many as you,” Steve replied, the ruia in there with you, Shaun?”

“She is,” I said, sliding a Taser into my pocket It wouldn’t stop someone who’d amplified all the way, but it would slow them down The virus doesn’t like to have the electrical current of its host h, Steve-o, on account of the bullets I put through her spinal coluh to open the doors, I’d be greatly obliged”