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She continues, frustrated and bewildered "He was only in the systeo How did your people drag a man like hih, disbelief still crashing over me "We didn’t Quinn was about as likely to blow up this place as you He must have had other business on the base It wasn’t hi her voice down so the others in the on’t overhear us "He had the detonator on hiirl as if nothing rong, then turning around and walking into the barracks a minute or two before the blast"

"Then soe" Sofia Quinn’s face as it e were children swi into on the security footage "He wouldn’t do this to her, Jubilee He had no reason"

"Mori had no reason to fire on a civilian in the town," she says quietly

"But that was the Fury," I press "This is completely different Your soldier was an off-worlder; Davin was born here No native’s ever snapped froht I never doubted our belief that the Fury was a trodairí excuse until Jubilee looked me in the eye and swore it was real But Davin Quinn was a hter to live for

"You’re right about one thing This wasn’t the Fury When our people snap, they grab the nearest knife and stab their friends and anyone else near them, Cormac They don’t build bolancing over her shoulder at ain "Building a boe Brutal As quick to strike as it is to pass again"

I shake, or soives a frustrated sigh, scrubbing her hand across her face I can see she’s troubled; it gives me hope that perhaps she believesht But then I realize she’s watchingto see her better, to understand the nuances of her closed-off face--and I know this isn’t the only news she came here to share

"Just tell ht The smoke I inhaled has turned it to a raspy parody of itself

Her brown eyes fix onup to focus on the wall beyond le I’ain, so I wait, and let her fight her battle alone

"You have to understand, Cormac You’re my enemy I don’t share inforh to reach into her pocket, hand e "I was focused on escaping back to base--" Her voice breaks off abruptly, and instead she just holds her hand out to me

I reach out automatically, and she drops the object into ht me to the facility out to the east" She won’t look at ht to be furious--I ought to want to punish her so proof I’er anywhere It’s an ident chip, a little like the kind the soldiers carry e was there at one point One side is covered with foil circuitry, and I turn it over inin the bar code on the other side I wish I had a scanner "Is this military?"

She shakes her head "Ours are newer This one’s old,me I somehow stumbled across a twenty-year-old facility that vanished a few hours later?"

"I don’t know" She shrugs, watching me "But I will say that while the older models don’t carry as much information, they’re more easily encrypted This one would require a very specific scanner, one we don’t even carry anyure out whose it is"

"Why are you tellingfor Proof And I’ve been hiding it fro the wall now and I can’t meet her eyes to decipher her expression "Jubilee--"

She interruptsthere; a flash, a vision, like the memory of the facility that used to be there I don’t kno, if it’s gone now, but I did"

Hardly able to believe what I’ it over and over in ht be able to divine a new clue fro on or where to look next

"Wait--stop!" Jubilee lurches fro around my wrist I freeze, but her eyes are on the chip "Turn it over"

I do as she says, and her fingers guideht She makes a s her line of sight alongside mine