AFTER GLEANING LITTLE in the way of useful information from her first round of interviews of Natural Movement suspects, Cariad was ready to move onto the next stage. As she sat in her office in the Leader’s building at the settlement, Kes comm’d her, wanting to meet up, but she explained she was much too busy. She closed the comm, aware that she hadn’t told Kes the entire truth, but that would have to wait until she had time to see him face to face.
She brought up the files she needed and input the cross reference search. At the same moment, Aubriot burst in. “So you are here! I thought your team were covering up for you again when they said you were planetside. Why have you been ignoring me? I must have comm’d you fifteen times.”
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