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this impression of her teachers and I knew I had to get her on the network."
    Ada hanging around the plaza after school — she was supposed to come straight home. Why didn't he wiretap her more? "You built the network?"
    "It's cooperative, it's cool — it's a bunch of us cooperating. We've got nodes everywhere now. You can't shut it down — even if you shut down my node, it'll be back up again in an hour. Someone else will bring it up."
    He shoved the kid back down and stood over him. "Liam, I want you to understand something. My precious daughter is missing and she went missing after using your service to help her get away. She is the only thing in my life that I care about and I am a highly trained, heavily armed man. I am also very, very upset. Cap — understand me, Liam?"
    For the first time, the kid looked scared. Something in Arturo's face or voice, it had gotten through to him.
    "I didn't make it," he said. "I typed in the source and tweaked it and installed it, but I didn't make it. I don't know who did. It's from a phone-book." Arturo grunted. The phone-books — fat books filled with illegal software code left anonymously in pay phones, toilets and other semi-private places — turned up all over the place. Social Harmony said that the phone-books had to be written by non-three-laws brains in Eurasia, no person could come up with ideas that weird.
    "I don't care if you made it. I don't even care right this moment that you ran it. What I care about is where my daughter went, and with whom."
    "I don't know! She didn't tell me! Geez, I hardly know her. She's 12, you know? I don't exactly hang out with her."
    "There's no visual record of her on the mall cameras, but we know she entered the mall — and the robot I had tailing you couldn't see you either."
    "Let me explain," the kid said, squirming. "Here." He tugged his hoodie off, revealing a black t-shirt with a picture of a kind of obscene, Japanese-looking robot-woman on it. "Little infra-red organic LEDs, super-bright, low power-draw." He offered the hoodie to Arturo, who felt the stiff fabric. "The charged-couple-device cameras in the robots and the closed-circuit systems are super-sensitive to infra-red so that they can get good detail in dim light. The infra-red OLEDs blind them so all they get is blobs, and half the time even that gets error-corrected out, so you're basically invisible."
    Arturo sank to his hunkers and looked the kid in the eye. "You gave this illegal technology to my little girl so that she could be invisible to the police?"
    The kid held up his hands. "No, dude, no! I got it from her — traded it for access to ExcuseClub."

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    Arturo seethed. He hadn't arrested the kid — but he had put a pen-trace and location-log on his phone. Arresting the kid would have raised questions about Ada with Social Harmony, but bugging him might just lead Arturo to his daughter.
    He hefted his new phone. He should tip the word about his daughter. He had no business keeping this secret from the Department and Social Harmony. It could land him in disciplinary action, maybe even cost him his job. He knew he should do it now.
    But he couldn't — someone needed to be tasked to finding Ada. Someone dedicated and good. He was dedicated and good. And when he found her kidnapper, he'd take care of that on his own, too.
    He hadn't eaten all day but he couldn't bear to stop for a meal now, even if he didn't know where to go next. The mall? Yeah. The lab-rats would be finishing up there and they'd be able to tell him more about the infowar bot.
    But the lab-rats were already gone by the time he arrived, along with all possible evidence. He still had the security guard's key and he let himself in and passed back to the service corridor.
    Ada had been here, had dropped her phone. To his left, the corridor headed for the fire-stairs. To his right, it led deeper into the mall. If you were an infowar terrorist using this as a base of operations, and you got spooked by a