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“I want a full analysis on the subliminal shadows”

He’d already anticipated that “I need to keep the unit then Sheila’s started on it, as you can see, but it takes tirae the subliminals Then it takes coood subli down its pattern isn’t like reading a truth analysis”

“How much time?”

“Two days, a day and a half if we get lucky”

“Get lucky,” she suggested and passed the hard copy to Peabody

Eve tried not to worry about the fact that the VR was one of Roarke’s toys, or what the consequences could be if it was indeed found to be part of the coercion Subliminal shadows That could be the connection she’d been searching for The next step was to tag the VR units that had been in Fitzhugh’s, Mathias’s, and Pearly’s possession at time of death

With Peabody keeping pace, she hustled down the sidewalk Her vehicle was—still—in Maintenance Eve didn’t think it worth the incredible headache of requisitioning a sub for a three-block hike

“Autu”

“Huh?”

Curious that Eve see in the air, the balmy scent on the eastward breeze, Peabody paused to take a deep breath “You can smell it”

“What are you doing?” Eve deh of New York and you’ll have to spend a day in detox”

“You get past the transport fuht just pass that new fresh air bill this election”

Eve spared her aide a glance “Your Free-Ager’s showing, Peabody”

“Nothing wrong with environers, we’d all be wearing filter ly at a people glide but ed stride “Not to put a da to have to do a major tap dance to access those VR units SOP would be for them to have been returned to the deceaseds’ estates by this time”

“I’ll get them—and I want this kept quiet, on a need-to-know basis only—until I sort it out”