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"Hey, you guys are stealing all et You guys wanted to run like chickens with their heads cut off"

Sarah snorted, a sound Michael hoped she never repeated "Yeah, andthe action from across the street"

Bryson stopped at the fifty-fourth floor "This ought to do" He reached down to twist the leverlike door handle, but it didn’t , but he could barelyto the top floor

"Locked?" Bryson huffed in frustration "Seriously? It’s locked?"

"They probably did it froly calm "We just need to crack their system" She had already squeezed her EarCuff, and her NetScreen opened up, hovering in front of her

"You better do so, then," Michael said His nerves were twisting tighter by the second "Hurry!"

Sarah was focused She typed furiously at her projected keyboard, swiping fingers at her NetScreen wildly Michael wanted to say "hurry" again, maybe scream it a few ti her on his own NetScreen, but opening just one link was dangerous enough Kaine seemed to lurk around every corner, both virtual and real

A wo echo that filled the air "Three of theht--" She was drowned out by an uptick in the thu drumbeat of footsteps, the squeak of shoes on the ce?" Bryson asked Sarah

She frowned but didn’t answer Michael looked over her shoulder, but it was hard to tell as going on All he saords and sche too quickly for him to make sense of it But he trusted Sarah

The noises froot louder They had to be only a few stories away now Michael thought he could actually hear the, the i in his brain

Sarah finally spoke, her voice tight and clipped "Alet into the syste their sensors Michael, click on!" She hadn’t paused in the slightest working at her controls

"They’re almost--" he started