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“She’s alive”

“Yup”

“Miriam lied”

“It’s one of her main skills”

“I need to think about this” She sank to the floor and started the recording froain

Mace considered her for a onna be okay?” he found hih he kneas probably a stupid question

She looked up at him “I have to be, don’t I?”

There was nothing he could say to that, so he turned his attention to finding a way out of the building for the both of them

…

Keiko watched the recording of Friday several more times as she let the reality of her situation sink in There was no doubt in herthe same scientist that Co the world she’d died Yet here she was, alive and well and part of the teaet into the research facility

The sa on a top-secret project—a state-of-the-art datachip that would wipe out the co about the chip except the co it to the et it out ahead of their co unrefined ladht back nausea If ladmium wasn’t processed properly, it would leach into people’s systems and kill them for sure

She watched Mace as he studied the feeds fro It felt like the world had been turned on its head Her parents were fighting against Co people for profit And what had she been doing? Blindly believing every single thing they said to her She’d never questioned anything She’d never wondered why Freedoovern, because her insider view of the co everything Mace said it was? What if everything he said was true?

She looked at Friday’s face, frozen on the screen in front of her She was alive Healthy Worried about a mission that needed to succeed The mission Mace had taken The mission that had caused theet inside the building

She cleared her throat “You really were never here to steal company secrets and sell them, were you?”

He kept his eyes on the screen, but his shoulders tensed “Don’t ht this was a good idea I’ company secrets”