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“Also, we got a clue,” A dramatically to sip his coffee
“About Mei?”
“Yep,” Aar to his cup “Prax, send hie three ti “The security video on your presentation I believe I know the“But his na and Tech University, his name was Merrian Carlos Merrian”
“That,” Holden said after his final viewing, “is what ht have called a lead”
“What now, chief?” Amos asked
“I think I need to et out of your hair and watch hisuntil the deck hatch slammed behind them to send a connection request to the switchboard at Ceres M&T The lag was running about fifteen minutes with Tycho’s current location, so he settled back and played a siame on his terminal that left his mind free to think and plan If they kneho Strickland had been before he was Strickland, theythe way, he’d stopped being a guy nauy naood start to learning where he ht be now
Al out the request, he received a reply He was a little surprised to see the elderly e He hadn’t expected to connect on his first try
“Hello,” the e I assume you want to know the details about Dr Merrian To ether at the CMTU biosciences lab He orking on biological develop the university game Didn’t make many allies while he was here So when he crossed soray areas, they were only too happy to run him out of town I don’t know the details on that I wasn’t his depart else”
Holden watched theWhen he was ready, he sent a reply back
“Thank you so much for the help, Dr Moynahan We really appreciate it I don’t suppose you knohat happened after he was kicked out of the university, do you? Did he go to another institution? Take a corporate job? Anything?”
He hit send and sat back to wait again He tried the puzzle gaot annoyed and turned it off Instead, he pulled up the Tycho public entertainment feed and watched a children’s cartoon that was frantic and loud enough to distract hie, he almost knocked it off the table in his haste to start the video
“Actually,” Dr Moynahan said, scratching at the gray stubble on his chin while he spoke, “he never even made it in front of the ethics review Quit the day before Made a lot of fuss, walking through the lab and yelling that eren’t going to be able to push hi corporate job with all the funding and resources he wanted Called us smire of petty ethical constraints Can’t reh”
Holden hit pause and felt a chill go down his spine Stagnating in a quagmire of petty ethical constraints He didn’t need Moynahan to tell him which company would snatch a man like that up He’d heard almost those exact words spoken by Antony Dresden, the architect of the Eros project that had killed a y experien and disappeared He’d come back as Strickland, abductor of sht, the murderer too