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“Is all this really necessary?” Calista asked

“We need a se will do nicely”

Calista nodded and walked to the front of the control roo s looked out over the Oly pool A pool where she’d learned to dive Where she and the others had trained for the mission to attack the Ethernet

Thinking about thathi on him and learned of his relationship with Sienna

She wondered ould possess a man to risk life and limb for a woman he could never have A woain, as he delivered her back to another man’s arms

Either Sienna was the type of woh to have encountered a man whose sense of duty was more important than his own selfpreservation In either case, Calista found herself jealous She had never known such a man and probably never would “Get Laurent up here,” Sebastian said, breaking her train of thought “We need to ht back to the coht Even the ones we’ve simply hired for local jobs”

“Expecting company?”

“Not right away,” Sebastian said, “but soon enough When they do come, we must be certain that they bleed They must find it as difficult as possible to overcome our defenses or they won’t truly believe they’ve won”

She understood It was all part of the game

Durban, South Africa

Ga of a local attraction The discovery of the Waratah was being kept secret until the ship was brought safely into South African waters But the ru that a member of the NUMA tea that she needed examined, she was met with an excited response

Several experts flew in on their own dime and convened with her at the University of Durban-Westville ca the samples of the insects, dead rodents, and various seeds and plants discovered on the Waratah

While they worked, Gamay took the opportunity to visit the library and found a microfilm machine, where she could peruse the old newspapers printed at the time of the Waratah’s disappearance

“Are you sure you don’t want to use a computer?” one of the librarians asked “All of this is online”

“Thank you but no,” Gah of computers for a while”