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At last, with a worried little frown, she looked over at hiht?”

“Not quite We thought that’s what it was, but turns out our science was off Friday’s got so, fancy words to describe our situation, but basically it boils down to us being hybrids Two different entities in one body,new”

“But you both depend on each other for life, right?”

“There’s no separating us, if that’s what you mean”

“That’s what I thought” She paled “Which makes me wonder: What happens to you if the bat dies?”

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Freedom

CommTECH Research Facility terrace

Houston, Northern Territory

The blaring alar on Susan Neal’s nerves, went blessedly silent

“The security-hub team reports it was a false alarm,” Graham, her com to do with our janals”

“Or it could have been our rogue press secretary and her reporter friend”

“The team couldn’t find any evidence of their interference The alarered in a reotten near it without security picking them up on their screens”

Then it was just a fault “Where are we on hunting down the press secretary?”

Graham indicated to Michael as he crossed the terrace toward therim as he approached “I’d say your second-in-command knows the answer to that,” he said