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In any other organization, this place would be called the War Room. A ring-shaped walkway of black tiles overlooked a pit where technicians in gray uniforms scurried back and forth in a frenzy. Control consoles placed in a circle smack dab in the middle of the pit were operated by even more technicians. Keepers called this the “Prep Room.” Jena would have preferred a more honest name, but in a display of typical Leyrian arrogance, her colleagues had embraced the idea that war was a dirty business, unworthy of anyone who carried a symbiont. Live on the Fringe for a while, she thought disdainfully. See if you still think it's dirty when the Antaurans throw you into it.
This place should have been called the War Room. That was its purpose now that Grecken Slade had effectively declared wa
