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"I’ll get right on that," Maggie said, walking over and slapping a can of Coke intothe plate with my omelet next to my discarded coffee cup

"Good Becks--"

"Coe" She stood, picking up her plate "I’ll set up out in the van"

"Good Alaric--"

"Ground-level analysis of the Oakland tragedy, short memorial piece on Dave" He rose as he spoke, expression already far away "I should be able to cobble soh to let e control after"

"That’s excellent Nohat are we going to do about the Doc?"

"I thought you’d ask that," said Alaric, looking briefly s efficient "I checked Buffy’s stock of precoded IDs Kelly looks enough like Buffy did that she can use most of them"

"Any of them come with medical credentials?"

"No strict ist--a fish scientist," Alaric added, seeing my look of blank incoist"

"Irelieved to have so to contribute to the discussion "I’ve never practiced, but I can fake it if I have to"

"Great Alaric, get the ID up and running, make sure it passes any surface checks people are likely to run, and go fro to hire you to replace Dave as soon as we corinned "Don’t worry Mahir will ghostwrite your articles, and we’ll just publish the these under, Alaric?"

"Barbara Tinney"

"Great We’ll publish them under the Barbara Tinney byline It reinforces the iit--and we can just call you ‘Doc’ in public"