“Do you know where you are?” Tina recovered her regal bearing.
“Did you know the Cortex didn’t exist before Chelsea and I were recruited? It was created just for us, a singular and independent department, not part of the DVI, not completely separate from it either. The Cortex is not a Blacksite because of the work it does with KS or the ridiculous immunity agreement we signed with her. It is because of me. I am a problem to the Atratian government.
“When I graduated, unlike other R8 agents, Starcut had my face all over the papers, KS was there too but for me it was different. Being the heir to Codesus an organization some believed to be rebels and others government, undercover servants. The controversy around Codesus served to make me even more famous. I graduated Upper-Rank Eight! The
