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“You doing repair and e of his desk, careful not to jar his rhythrunt she received in response and waited while he transferred a sliver of so onto a clear dish

“Soet a virus of soht into the chief’s unit Memory’s been boosted, the GCC compromised”

She glanced at the silver sliver and iined that was the GCC Computers weren’t her forte “Got a line on it?”

“Not yet” With tiny tweezers, he lifted the sliver, studied it through his glasses “But I will I found the virus, dosed it, that’s first priority This poor little bastard’s dead, though When I autopsy it, we’ll see”

She had to smile It was so like Feeney to think of his components and chips in hued off his glasses

His eyes shrank, blinked, refocused And there he was, Dallas thought, ruy, just as she liked hi her the kind of in-the-field training she could never have learned through discs or VR And though he’d transferred from Homicide to captain in EDD, she continued to depend on him

“So,” she began “Did you miss me?”

“Were you gone?” He grinned at her, reached a hand into a bowl for some candied almonds “Did you like your fancy honeymoon?”

“Yeah, I did” She took a nut herself It had been a long time since lunch “Even with a body at the end of it I appreciate the data you dug up for me”

“No problem A lot of fuss for self-terminations”

“Maybe” His office was larger than hers, due to his rank and his love of space His boasted a view screen which, as usual, was tuned to a classic fil lowered into a pit of asps “It’s got a few interesting aspects, though”

“Want to share?”

“That’s why I’m here” She’d copied the data she’d taken from the senator’s file and took the disc froot a brain dissection on here, but the picture’s a little rough Can you clean it up, boost it some?”

“Can bears shit in the reforested park?” He took the disc, swiveled to his unit, and loaded it Mo What did you do, use a portable to record off screen?”

“It would be better if we didn’t get into that”