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She spread her hands apart, and an i at her He looked happy, relaxed, delighted Seeing it had the sa a bucket of ice water over his head

“You recorded me?” he demanded “You can do that?”

“Sure Everyone who’s implanted can record for personal use” She tapped the space below her eye “The camera in my lens can record or take photos It isn’t capable of the kind of resolution the cah for taking notes ormemories It’s a standard function on a basic lens Don’t yours do that?” Her nose scrunched as she frowned at his eyes, as if she could gauge what comm lenses he wore

This wasn’t the time to share that he didn’t have any lenses in his eyes or, for that matter, any tech implanted in his body at all In the territories, if a person didn’t have iovernment mandates de born It was the bare minimum for survival The only people who didn’t have implants were either visitors from outside of the territories or criminals and terrorists who’d had their implants removed

“You can’t keep photos of erous—for both of us I can’t haveout there”

She laughed at hie with its spotlight, that ship has sailed”

He looked down at the transparent i in the air between her hands She had a point “Have you recorded my team, too? Did you record our conversations?”

“Not intentionally, but therein there”

“When we get soh your data and eliminate all references to erous to us”

“Nobody knows it’s there” It was clear she thought he was overreacting

“When we get out of here, CommTECH will debrief you That’s standard procedure What’s to stop your boss fro hold of the data in your head?”

“Me, that’s ill stop her She has no right to access e chip without e blinked out, and Keiko folded her arms

Was she really that naive? Did she really have that much faith in her company? “What happens when Miriam has someone strap you to a table and download your data, whether you like it or not?”

Her eyes narrowed “She wouldn’t do that That only happens to criminals You need a court order to mine someone’s implant without their permission”

Unbelievable Was she really that clueless about who she’d been working for these past few years? “Think about it for a second Who runs the courts? The governovernment? CommTECH Trust me when I tell you that Miria all the paperwork she needed to do whatever the hell she wanted to do to you I’ve seen the bodies to prove it”