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"What?" Sarah insisted "What did you hear?"

"A voice" Bryson’s face had sht before hisked away, back to the Wake I heard a voice, clear as a bell"

"What did it say?" Michael asked

Bryson grinned " ‘You have friends aents’ "

Chapter 10: An Old Device

By that night, Michael had two roos with clothes and such, and after retrieving thes to talk about Michael thought a lot about Bryson’s revelation as the day wore on, wondering about these ents that had freed them from the KillSims He was curious, fascinated And worried that soain

"Check this out," Bryson said as they finished their dinner, a gourh one of his bags and pulled out a rectangular device One side was glass; the other washiss "This, my friends, is called a NetTab"

"What?" Sarah asked doubtfully, dragging out the word "People haven’t used those things in years"

"Well," Bryson replied "My dad is what you s"

She just rolled her eyes at her friend’s laht fall to dust like soyptian scroll It seemed just as archaic

"Is that really what this is?" he asked "I’ve never even seen one, they’re so old"

"Yes," Bryson said as he took it away "That’s what it is And the thing still works, too You can thankon in the world without risking the use of our NetScreens"

Michael liked the sound of that He was beyond spooked now by Kaine and his ure out what to do

"Show us hoorks," Sarah said

Bryson beamed like a proud father "It’s not hard to use The hard part is connecting to the Net using the old systein’ genius, and he’s got this puppy all hooked up We can browse all ant and no one will know it’s us This thing has no link to our identities"

He pressed a button and the glass screen caround that looked much like a normal NetScreen Except there weren’t any personal identifiers, just links to news sources and ga on in the world"

Bryson tapped the device and they got what they wanted

After an hour of scouring the NewsBops for any sign of Kaine’s Doctrinized Tangents wreaking havoc in the world, they had a laundry list of events that s that were probably slipping under most people’s radars as coincidences or one-time occurrences, Michael kneere far more sinister All three of the, it was clear that Kaine was touching the world with his influence