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Michael squeezed her shoulder "We’ll find your s out with Kaine I just … what if looking for Bryson … what if they do soer, and we can’t do this without him We’ll just have to be smart and careful"

Michael loved it that neither of the for duty--or whatever it was--like the Tangent wanted theht about Gabriela one ht to tell Sarah about her Later would be better

"Okay, then" It was tiot a list of things we need to do"

The next day, the two of the cereal The kind with lots of ood for you on the package And Michael felt safe He was confident that both his and Sarah’s new multilayered identities would hide theuys and the bad They’d also found an apartment that rented by the month After the encounter with Gabriela, Michael had decided he needed to otten the rule about not talking with your mouth full

"It’s not a bad place, really," she said after shoving another spoonful into her mouth She looked around at the s room--empty--then down the hallhere there were a couple of bedroole , brand-new Coffin The coffins hadn’t been cheap, and Michael halfheartedly promised himself to pay back the Porters so their son

"Well, not really how I iinednext to cranks and prostitutes"

"Cranks?"

"Yeah" Michael rolled his eyes "Crankheads? Druggies?"

She gave him a blank stare

Michael smiled "You’ve lived a sheltered life"

"You were a coram," she countered

"Ouch" He took another spoonful, chewed, sed "I guess we can’t put this off anymore Time for the Sleep You ready?"

Sarah put her spoon down "I’ree withto find Bryson in the Wake, they needed to Sink into the Sleep and search for hi themselves in the VirtNet than they did in the Wake, and it would be safer for the hi hoell they’d set up their new identities until they couldn’t wait any longer

"Things should’ve settled down by now, right?" she asked