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“That’s wise Are you seeing a reaction to the news about the underground losing their hiding place?”

“Not aeneral population, no But it meant a lot to the security force We kneas here so it down? It’s a major step forward Without a physically isolated space, it’s harder for the terrorists to coordinate And it lets us move into the next phase Identification”

“How h asked

Overstreet spread his massive hands “Fifteen for certain Maybe twenty The level of internal corruption within the local population can’t be understated My best esti personnel are at least open to working against us”

Singh let the assessratitude and arrogance of the locals flare like it was happening outside himself When he was sure he wouldn’t curse, he spoke

“That’s unacceptable,” Singh said “Changing that has to be a top priority”

“Didn’tin on where it stood I’ve put in double and triple checks, random audits, all the internal security procedures I can, but this is going to be soular couard here, I expect to see these proble in the new Like that”

Singh ment, neither approval nor condemnation

“The dock attack hat led us to their nest,” Overstreet said “But even there, I’ passed up the chain to us”

“And where do we stand on that investigation?”

Overstreet’s ice-blue eyes looked away

“Permission to speak freely, Governor?”

“Granted”

“It’d be going a lot better if you hadn’t shipped my best resource back home Holden was central to the conspiracy The man’s a murderer And I’m still not a hundred percent certain what the aim of the attack was”

“To dah said