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“Mustang…” There’s fear in Sevro’s voice He’s out of breath I hear boot steps on …Boneriders in Old Tokyo…trap” There’s an explosion and the feed cuts to static

Boneriders

I hear blood in my ears

I look over to Daxo Billions are watching on live stream I can’t leave We need this vote now Theodora will have to take point She’ll dispatch units to aid Sevro

Boneriders?

How could it be possible? They should still be iain?

Are they working with the Syndicate?

It makes no sense It has to be a trick Sevro must be mistaken

If Sevro is not mistaken, this is exactly the sort of public venue where the Boneriders would like toas if I’ll find a bomb hidden there The Forum was checked a dozen times by Holiday and the Warden It has to be clean If Old Tokyo was a trap, then how did the Syndicate knoas co the duke? I whisper for the Pegasus Legion units I have on standby north of Hyperion to couard on the Field of Ares Outside the Foruh alert

Another hiccup escapes Dancer’s lips and he reaches up with a hand to scratch his throat “Our Gold enehly “…So today I seek an end to that—”

A great mucus-filled hiccup escapes his lips and his hands wrench into a cramped, infantile movement to paw at his chest The Red senators beside him rustle in concern But then another hiccups in their ranks And another Using the shoulders of the senators beneath hiht, his eyes confused and unfocused “Today I seek to—”

Then comes the horror

A clu tissue vomits out of Dancer’s mouth

It bathes the togas of the senators beneath hi, he topples over onto their heads They collapse under the weight and with shouts set hiround Panic swirls around Dancer as he contorts violently on the stone, blood dribbling froe froround Publius rushes to cradle his head “Gas!” I shout, holding en detectors do not wail The roo aroundno abnormalities

I su underneath the Foruh the interior doors