43: Keelin
Keelin
Keelin monitored the bug.
It would register any removal attempt, damage her craft. It’s what she’d do—have the thing so firmly embedded, physically and otherwise, that it became part of the framework. And even if she did get it free, it would alert Kaiahive. That smarmy guy would return, with armed friends.
She could preempt, storm over to the Proteus, rip through the hatch and break their necks. Only three inside, right?
But they’d get a message off. Or Kaiahive would be alerted when they didn’t report in.
Nothing for it but to leave the bug in situ, like a tick burrowing into her skin. Constantly there, throbbing with data.
Might not be so bad if she could read the data. She tried, but even when she saw the thing on the system, it was encrypted. Nothing she cou
