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“There’s just one thing I need to do From what you’ve told reatest weakness”

“Yeah,” he said sloondering if the shock hadThey didn’t have tiet to the hub and destroy the building’s surveillance—and they needed to do it now

“Okay, then In that case, you can’t let the bat off your body It’s too dangerous” She took a deep, tremulous breath and pointed at the bat “Get back on Mace this instant We don’t have tih to deal with”

The bat stopped perfor at her with the sained was on his face: one of utter shock

Her finger shook as she pointed at the bat “Shoo! Get back where you belong Right this minute”

The bat seemed confused, and then Mace felt it smile She worry about me

Mace glared at the bat No, she doesn’t

It wasn’t listening It fluttered around Keiko’s head before settling on his shoulder, crawling under his shirt, andwith him It also flooded his mind with all the insects it’d eaten Asshole

Keiko’s eyes stayed glued to the path the bat had taken Before Mace could guess what she’d do next, she stalked behind him, pulled down his shirt, and addressed the bat

“You stay right there until we’re out of this mess, you hear?”

A strange, unfah hihtened a little when he went to talk “I don’t knohy you’re bothering I need to call it back out e go downstairs It has to cover the caet close to the security hub”

“And then it goes straight back on you,” she ordered him and the bat

I like her, the bat cooed

This summed up his life His other half wouldn’t listen to hi-rah for him

She came around to face him, and she was furious “It is totally irresponsible of you to let the bat out when it ? All anyone needs to do to take you out is attack the bat Don’t do it again”