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It tookat Four different color videos, one in each corner of the screen; four different viewpoints of the ca his hands on either side of his laptop

He reached acrosson the other side of his desk He never once took his eyes off the screen

"Hayes, do you read ruff, "Yeah, what’s up?" cah the speaker

"The southeast peri the feed now, but--" I think what he was going to say was, I don’t see anyone or anything, but his next words hadunder his arm to take a look at the screen myself "Yeah, I see a man and a woman Both in camo--unfriendlies, by the look of it"

And there they were They looked well intowhat could only be described as hunting attire, head-to-toe cae Even their faces appeared to have been painted brown

"Got it I’ll take care of it"

"Thanks…get them to back off, will you?" Clancy said carefully, then turned the voluood, not Liah

My eyes were still on the screen when Clancy shut the laptop lid "Let’s get back to work Sorry for the distraction"

I could feel o out there?" I asked "What’s Hayes going to do to theain

"Don’t worry about it, Ruby Everything is under control"

One cracka fortress’s defenses down, but it was enough to splinter into two cracks, and then three, and then four After the initial breakthrough, it became a mission of mine to find different ways to slip into Clancy’sbefore I was unceremoniously tossed out, of course; but every small victory spurred me on to achieve another, and then another I could catch hi else, trick hi after another It surprised Clancy, but I thought it also, in a secret way, excited hi on others

It was like running downhill in a way; theand sht when I pulled each of the six kids working on it aside and planted six very different ideas about what they were supposed to be irl so convinced her naan to cry whenever anyone told her otherwise It became so easy, in fact, to convince soest that they had done so they really hadn’t, that Clancy toldto do the sa test subject first

I was getting there, slowly, andal the same powerful swell of abilities that had once terrorized me corked and controlled Every aspect of them became sharper, easier

But on the Tuesday that folloere interrupted again