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been other than polite to him, but even that helped.

"Any questions, Techs?" Delles barely paused before adding, "Dismissed.
Operation begins at zero nine hundred local tomorrow."

DeJahn stood.

Meralez walked by him, as if she would not speak to him.

He nodded, deciding against smiling.
 "I saw that. With Vielho. You're not so cold. Not like people think." She
flashed a quick smile, almost secretive, before her face turned just tech-pleasant.

Cold? He kept to himself, but he wasn't cold, was he?

****

X.
0849. DeJahn stood outside pod two. He didn't like being early, but he liked being
late even less. In front of him, Esquival stepped forward, extending her hand. As she
did, deJahn was aware of someone behind him-- Meralez. He wanted to look back.
He didn't.

Then it was his turn. He extended his hand to the sensor. Tech deJahn.

Entry granted.

He slipped into the dimness. Captain DiLayne was OpsCon again. That
figured. Delles would take the main pod. Pod two was smaller, with only four
sensie-seats. DeJahn took the second seat, and watched as Meralez stopped beside
the third. He smiled at her through the dimness, but only for a moment. She only
nodded.

He eased the mesh linkcap into place, then settled himself. Tech deJahn.

Accepted. Flash background: Snators--bioexplosive. Clutches implanted in
five locales, activated at thirty-six minus. Links confirmed. Five targets--all
broadband nodecasters. See plots.

The good news was that his targets weren't people, but the bad news was that
he was riding herd on reptilian bioexplosives almost as deadly as ultra-ex. He'd need
careful timing for the disengagement.

The five plots displayed the snators, all arrayed around Lumut, each less than
three thousand yards from the target. Each had been sent in with a biogator weeks or
months before, little more than a programmed bioblastula with accelerated growth
patterning. That kind of planning was something deJahn didn't want to think about.

Interrogative vector status? snapped DiLayne.