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She wanted to say so herself to lie The best she could think of was to change the subject

“When we get out,” she said “Not if When We’re going to need a plan If every ship just bolts off on its oe’ll lose contact They shouldn’t knohere ent, but we should At the very least, we should have a record of here This every-ainst-all shit’s ro past just this”

Saba nodded In the distance, voices and footsteps

“Not just encrypted but in code,” Saba said “So where only we knohat it means”

“We?”

“Ou ydissidents”

Bobbie chuckled “Well, there’s a fucking job title”

The footsteps ca closer Saba looked up like an ani else It’s tooelse

The woman who appeared in Saba’s dooras older, white hair pulled back in a tight braid Her body was long and thin, her head a little too large for her shoulders The classic build of soravity to hold her down She even had the split circle of the OPA tattooed on her arhtness in her eyes belonged on a woe She looked fro like triumph in her eyes

“Maha?” Saba said “Que?” And then to Bobbie, “Maha one of our best communications techs Had her hands in the codes since before I was born, yeah?”

“And I know all their secrets,” she said in a weirdly accented voice She held out a dumb terminal that wasn’t connected to Medina’s system “The new decryption run turned over so under one”

Bobbie was closer She took the handheld terh the file there It was titled MEDINA STATION SUPPLEMENTARY SECURITY REVIEW AS REQUESTED BY GOVERNOR SANTIAGO SINGH The file’s creator was listed as Major Lester Overstreet She checked the file length and whistled

“Que?” Saba said

“This is way too long to just be an incident report,” Bobbie said “It’s …”

The section headings were Materials, Procedures, Personnel, Protocols, Audit Suraphfrom when she’d trained back on Olympus Mons It looked like an MMC security report, but twice as long Maybe three ti to swim a little