# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Thirty-Two — Carrie's Decision
Carrie confirmed thread five on a Wednesday.
She texted Mia at 11 p.m.: *Virginia network confirmed. Five threads mapped. One to go.*
Then: *Also I think I want to stay in Austin.*
Mia read both texts. She replied to the first: *Good work.* She replied to the second: *Tell me more.*
The more came in person, Thursday evening, at the kitchen table.
Carrie sat across from Mia with coffee and the specific directness she brought to everything. She was twenty-six and sharp and had the particular quality of someone who had grown up in the shadow of her brother's long careful mission and had developed her own method — faster, less patient, more instinctive — as a counterweight.
"I've been working with Vance's techni
