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“You need to warn Kharem,” Aleph said after Miolar told her. Her fingers blurred. “Not getting through the system, though.”
Miolar nodded. He let out a long sigh. “I’m not as young as I was, but…” He frowned. “He’s in his operations room, yes? Is the door unlocked?”
“Hang on.” Aleph tapped, pulled the data onto a new screen. “Can see it. Means I should be able to unseal it.”
“You’re not certain?”
She faced him, and scowled. “I’ll do the best I can. Can’t ask for more than that.”
“Understood.”
“You got a weapon?”
“Always.” He rose, patting a bulge on his right hip. “Thank you.”
“Sure.” She tapped to open her own door, started work on the door to Kharem’s operations room.
There was a lock engaged, but she had ways around that. Might take a bit of time, but Miolar wasn’t
