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As soon as all of them had exited, I walked over to the first monitor The screen was blank, but I had learned a bit about computers from Sofia--at least, hoork a basic laptop While these were certainly nized that most of them appeared to be in sleep mode The screens were dulled, but not coht behind the happened I pushed a button on the keyboard A pop-up appeared requesting a password

H away from that particular monitor, I scanned the rest of the computers All of their screens were blank… except for one, in the far corner of the room This was a taller and wider monitor than all the others I walked up to it and stared at the co at Possibly more than a thousand small white dots were speckled about the screen over a dark red background, and each ht, othersat all

I scanned all corners of thefor clues as to what this was But it was in full-screen round Placing a hand over the lided it upward and clicked theill stall motion sensors Hit ‘Y’ to continue, or ‘N’ cancel"

I held my breath as I stared at the words

Stall motion sensors

Realization fell upon me like a block of wood

These white dots They were my family My friends My people

I didn’t kno they were detecting our le one of us I could only guess that they y that was able to sense

A chill settled in at the base of my spine as I wondered what else they had discovered about us How else they atching us

I started as Ibrahim’s voice rose above the loud siren behind o"

Before I could object, the warlock’s hand closed around h air at the speed of light When ain, ere back at the jetty of our Port

Myas I tried to process what I had just witnessed I felt irritated that Ibrahim had removed us froer, there were ht have discovered from that unlocked computer

As he removed the invisibility spell from both of us, I turned on hi to reel in ht us back here so soon without good reason

He gazed back out at the ship we had just left, disturbance in his eyes

"That alarm," he said, "I didn’t set it off"