“Yet the ones who are after me at the moment are doing so because of a contract I fulfilled on your instructions. Their interest is through your actions. So why should I thank you?”
Cat shook his head. “You haven’t thought long on our last conversation, have you? I believe I am somewhat disappointed in you again, Mister Rodin. I expected someone of your intellectual capacity to connect the dots, to ruminate on the implications. You, of all people, should have been asking questions. That is—or was—one of the reasons you stood out.”
Brodie’s childhood, the trouble with his instructors. Learning to keep those questions to himself, to carry out his own research. Learning to circumvent screen security, to bypass the filters on the network.
Again, how long had Cat been watching Rodin?
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