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"A favor?" Becks frowned, suddenly suspicious Given how on edge she’d been since we arrived, that wasn’tabout here?"
"Nothing you’d lose any sleep over We need you to break into the local CDC building and drop a little so bread
"Define ‘a little so up That’s their gae facility isn’t online We want access So we have a pressure-point hotspot that we just need you to get into the proper place and switch on Then you coet your shiny new identities, and with the to screw the CDC over in so about" She put her knife down, resting her hands on the counter as she looked at us cal into her calm, cold eyes, I realized the Fox wasn’t the only crazy person living in this house She was just the one who had the honesty to wear her crazy on her sleeve
"Yeah," I said "We have a deal"
… all attempts to culture a live infection in blood sa, we induced amplification in a white-tailed deer, and injected it via dart with a seruns of ie The necropsy was inconclusive Unfortunately, I think we’ll need to try this with a hu My tea the area for freshly infected individuals; thus far, we’ve had no luck
No reports of mosquito-borne Kellis-Amberlee have come in from any of my sources in California, Arizona, or Nevada It’s possible that we e this bullet I don’t think so; we haven’t dodged any of the ones that ca to believe that there may be an answer All I need is a little more time
--Taken from an e-mail sent by Dr Shannon Abbey to Dr Joseph Shoji at the Kauai Institute of Virology, August 1, 2041
Well, that’s that, then We’re all going to die
Charust 1, 2041 Unpublished
Nineteen
Dr Kimberley’s technicians didn’t have any street clothes in e to find me a pair of hard-soled slippers, which weren’t quite the shoes I’d asked for, but were several thousand ti since I woke up
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"Like what?" I asked "Governmental corruption? Conspiracy to defraud the A?"
"Yes," he said, without a trace of irony "That’s a good initial list of things to avoid Don’t log into any e-mail accounts with your name on them Don’t--"
"I promise I’ve used other people’s networks before, and I’ve neverto," I said, and reached for the laptop again "We’re all trying to trust each other here Forthat I have a clear connection For you, the last step to trusting etting ant when you let ory chuckled and pushed the laptop towardto use logic againstcut open and dissected for the a slowly throughas I opened it The screen sprang to life, displaying a stark white background with the CDC logo in the center I letunsteadily out "Oh, "
"Maybe we only trust you because we don’t have any other choice, but we do trust you, Georgia" Gregory touchedme to look up He smiled "Let’s try and earn it from each other"
I nodded "I’ll do my best," I said And then I bent ory didn’tmy e-mail was smart, if unnecessary: Anyone who’s never worked professionally in Internet neould probably assuo for their inbox He was right, in a way He was also wrong All the public-facing e-mail addresses--the ones that fed into the customary web their contents into the true inboxes behind the After the End Tined The only time we ever needed to use those boxes directly e were so all the way into the system Even if I only had twenty minutes, I had plenty of time to make it that far