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The message came through to Cat in the early hours, shortly before daybreak. The buzz from his screen woke him from a fitful sleep, but he grew instantly alert when he read the delivery data.
Messages between Domes were tricky. The acceptable method was through drives and chips, transported on the trains, but there was also a system of relays within the tunnels themselves. While existing for official business (in effect, whatever Authority deemed appropriate), there were ways to utilise this system if one was careful. Messages weren’t instant, but they still arrived.
There was another method, one that allowed Authority to communicate with agents such as Cat when out in the field, but Cat had never fully understood it. Something to do with hardware that orbited the planet itse
