Chapter 23
Liv didn’t turn around. She had a panel from the wall removed and resting across the front of her hover chair as she leaned in to dig into the cables that had been behind it.
“I have a gun on you,” Scout felt compelled to point out.
“Whatever makes you comfortable,” Liv said, head still bent over her work. Scout looked at the pistol, then tucked it back away. Like Warrior had said, the most dangerous thing about Liv was her mouth. The gun would be useless against that.
“Why did you take out the power?” Scout asked.
“I didn’t. I’m trying to turn everything back on,” Liv said, reaching further into the cable-filled space.
“You can’t just flip a switch?”
“Not anymore. Clementine left a nice collection of booby traps.”
Scout watched her follow the length of a cable with her
