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women were pregnant. The counsellors were working with them to find a way to deal with the betrayal of trust.
    “Have you found anything?”
    “He didn’t order any supplies from the Citadel depot. He didn’t do anything. How did Might not notice this?”
    “The Sector Guard and Citadel do not share any financial resources. They are independent entities. You will have to work out what is necessary and fill out requests for personnel.”
    Riasa sat down with a huff and reached under the desk. She found the crystal she was searching for. “Got it.”
    “Got what?”
    “He had to keep the data pack he sent yesterday. It wasn’t in his com unit, so it had to be on separate storage.” She held the crystal up. “Here it is.”
    “You are very good at this.”
    She looked over at Natu. He was sitting on a chair turned around to let his wings go unfettered. “At what?”
    “Finding things.”
    “I am good at seeing things. I saw the message last night; it was a data burst with my image in it. There was no way for him to send it if he didn’t have that file on the unit. It had to be somewhere.” She chuckled. “Just like looking for a toxic weed when the kids get colic. You know it has to be somewhere even if you can’t see it in front of you.”
    Riasa cut off the signal to the satellite and slipped the crystal into place. The file opened and nine others with it. “He had a list of people from Resicor. Many of them were from a research station and the staff are now in the Sector Guard. He was unable to pursue their files due to that separation you mentioned.”
    “But, he found you.”
    “I dropped into his lap. Whomever he worked for was not expecting more of us to escape Resicor. I am a bonus talent.” She scowled. “I hate being a bonus talent.”
    “It isn’t an insult, but was that why he was here?”
    “Yes, he was here to find those talents.” She worked her fingers over the unit. “They tracked them to Teklan and then lost them. They want those talents back.”
    “What is so special about them?”
    “You will have to ask Reset. She was the last known contact with those talents.” She took her file and worked it over.
    “What are you doing?”
    “Giving them a little misinformation. I am going to send this as a final burst and tag it for tracking purposes. We might be able to see where it bounces to, or at least get the general direction going.”
    Natu touched his suit. “Com, we are going to need a trace on this signal.”
    “Understood.”
    Riasa raised her eyebrow as a voice came out of his suit. “That is interesting.”
    “Yours does the same.”
    “Nice.”
    He cocked his head. “How do you know where to send it?”
    “Clovid is an idiot. He left the coordinates in the unit. He has sent seven reports to it, and it is not a Citadel outlet or facility. This is the route that he sent the message to and it has never been altered.”
    She reconnected the com and sent the burst. “It is the wrong time of day and the signal is being sent to a fixed router. They might retaliate and they certainly will know that their mole is gone.”
    “You seem to be good at this.”
    She chuckled. “Farm girl. Finding moles is what I used to do.”
    When the burst was sent, she shut down the terminal. “I am going to need a new terminal. Take a note.”
    He blinked. “Am I your secretary?”
    Riasa grinned. “No, you are my bodyguard and partner. Make yourself useful. I am going to do a floor-by-floor assessment. We need to lock all coms on this Citadel and re-encode them. No signal goes out that isn’t routed through a secure satellite to a preapproved location.”
    To her amusement, he grabbed a tablet and made notes. She got to her feet and walked around the desk. “We are going to go floor by floor.”
    The receptionists’ office got a once over, and she found nothing unusual. It was obvious that no business had been engaged in. Clovid had moved in and begun to craft a fiefdom under the