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“She’s mute,” her father says fro “Brea, cooes and stands next to hirimace “Been that way for years Ever since herbut comfortable

There’s shouting as Alred delivers the water and booze He comes back from Julii’s tirade flushed red, with a note from Victra It’s just fifty lines of numbers

“What’s this?” I call

“Cryptogram,” she shouts “Best I could coa She can use the array’s main uplink

to send it But not while I’uard”

“I could take it,” I say, peeking through the door

“Do you kno to force link to the holoNet and send a private encodedto prove yourself and let the freelancer earn her keep”

I a her instructions and the cryptograram,” she says, one eye on the Reds I don’t like the look of Cormac much either “Oh, fifty lines She did this in her head?”

“Apparently”

“Wow”

“Yeah, she knows”

Volga tucks it away and I schlep over to the table to twiddle a asks the ainst it like a sentry on duty

“That’s right, love You got soood Common on you”

“Why shouldn’t I?” she asks

“Didn’t ob” He winces and sips fro