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"You kids," said Dr Wynne, with a forced chuckle "Y’all be careful out there, all right?"

"As careful as you can be when you’re looking for the living dead," I said "Take care of yourself, Dr Wynne"

"You, too, Shaun," he said, and disconnected the call

I took a second to just stand there with e swearing in the back of ain," I said, voice barely above a whisper

"What?" asked Dave

"Nothing" I openedback into the kitchen for a fresh Coke I popped the tab and downed half the can in one large, carbonated gulp The frozen sweetness made my molars ache and snapped the world back into a semblance of focus "I need you to tear down your workstations, and then get started on everybody else’s," I said, returning to the living room "Dave, where are you with that list?"

"It’s encoded I need--"

"Forget what you need Upload it to the main server and the mirrors; pack the physical drive"

"Boss?" asked Alaric, uncertainly

"Gear up like you’re never going to see this place again Alaric, as soon as Becks confir standard on the Doc, I need you to take over Do a second scan of everything she brought with her You find anything that looks like it , kill it" I raised a hand before he could protest "Don’t study it, don’t dissect it, don’t try to subvert it, kill it We don’t have ti after her"

"But--"