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--Internal chat log, user AKwong to user MGowda, August 1, 2041
We have reers froia Mason" She was made aware of the realities of her situation by Dr Lake before we reached this phase, and her psychological progress has been nothing but encouraging I believe she will re we are able to secure her release My team can keep her isolated for a few days more; Dr Thomas and his lackeys are distracted with the final preparations to awaken her replacement
This has crossed a line This experi and morally questionable, but for the first time, it has become obscene She’s a real person She knoho she is, even if she is only that person because of us She thinks, she feels, and she wants to go hoe sent by Dr Danika Kiust 1, 2041 Recipient unknown
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We left the Brainpan and returned to the Agora Breaking into the CDC in broad daylight would take a stupid plan and render it actively suicidal--not so I was in a hurry to do, all indications to the contrary aside Besides, even if it had been full dark, I would have insisted on going back to the resort There was no ere going to take Maggie into the field with us Not for so the drive, al in on herself as she listened to Becks and Mahir arguing about the best ways to bypass CDC security She’d been a part of this tea to an end, and we all knew it When this was over, if she was still alive, she wouldn’t be one of us anye and twisted around to face her "Maggie, I--"
It was too late She was already out of the van and on her way to the airlock door I froze where I was, not sure what I was supposed to do
"Let her go"
For a ia’s Then I liftedat ood about herself Let her go We can talk to her e get back"
If we get back, said George
"Yeah," I said, answering them both, and unfastened ie’s path to the airlock The lobby was empty e arrived Somehow, that wasn’t much of a surprise We didn’t discuss our nextfor our own room to do whatever it e had to do in order to feel like ere ready If you can ever feel ready for soet unpacked--or h that it took ether, double-checking the aun and the straps on every holster I even retied my boots It never hurts to be overprepared Then I stopped, looking at the e to leave behind," I said aloud "No aparts No family Just a hotel room that won’t remember me tomorrow"