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“No idea on that either,” she repeated

“Well, if they’re machines, someone had to make them”

“Exactly our thinking,” Gaht be”

Kurt’s phone pinged again, and another photo caazine article A photo in the corner showed a businessany hair was pulled back into a long ponytail, and bushy beard covered most of his face His suit looked like a navy blue Armani or some other double-breasted Italian cut

“Who is he?” Kurt asked

“Elwood Marchetti,” Ganed a process for printing circuits onto e proponent of nanotechnology He once clai cholesterol out of our arteries to old from seawater”

“And these things are nanobots?” Kurt asked

“Actually they’re larger,” she said “If you think of a nanobot as a Tonka truck, these things are earthmovers A similar concept, still er”

Leilani was studying the photo “So this guy Marchetti is the problem,” she said firmly

Kurt reserved judgment “Hoe connect these microbots to him?”

This ti to an international patent on file, this is very close to one of his designs”

Kurt’s own sense of righteous anger was building, he noticed Leilani wringing her hands

“Is he using the?”

“Not that we know of”

“Then how’d they end up in the sea?” he asked “And more important, how’d they end up on the catamaran?”