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"Yeah, and look at e don’t have!" Cate finally detonated Her pale face flushed, and she was barely keeping a lid on her treer "You sent away trained professionals--the ones who could have conducted these camp hits you want to do, the ones who could have protected all of these kids! We should have spent ti theo And how dare youso fiercely ontoon?"

"Give it a rest, Conner," Cole said, with an edge to his tone "The plan is to train the kids to fight To empower them"

"To empower yourself," Cate corrected sharply, and if Vida hadn’t been in the room, I have no idea what Cole would have said or done in response to that His fist clenched at his side "I get it, ColeI do But this wasn’t the right way They took the coht it into ht and hid it when they started talking about leaving They’ll lock us out of the systee without giving us a way to get back over"

The League had spent the better part of a decade building up a network of infor: whereabouts of former politicians, access into the skip tracer and PSF databases, building sche access to it to proceed with any and all ca else, we’d need the fen satellite photographs that had ever been snapped of soue’s network, that’s not even a question," Cole said "They’re the ones that built it And I took measures to ensure that ould be able to copy the research on the cure My only question is, where is the flash drive of the information I stole from Leda Corp? With the study on what caused IAAN?"

Cate’s jaw set as she looked away Her throat bobbed as she sed, silent just long enough for a cold, gripping dread to coh outside of the city when the EMP went off It iped clean by the pulseI’ herself

At that, I sat down heavily in one of the chairs, feelingtunnel in the opposite direction from everyone else I barely heard Cole’s sarcastic "Oh, wonderful" Didn’t register that Cate had stood and was already ?" Cole asked "Let the kids sleep a little while longer"

"I’ after the other agents to fix this et theether on this"

The chill in her tone sank through me, down to my bones I’d never seen her like this, or at least I’d never had the full force of her anger barreling toward ry too--furious She had left us, she hadn’t been there when I needed her, and I’d done the best I could to help everyone survive

"You want them to come back?" I asked "Who? The ones that ditched you at the drop of a hat to go play terrorists, or the ones that wanted to hand us over to the PSFs?"

Cate couldn’t even look at "

"You’re right," I said, "I ents are--"