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Thad was a lot of fun. Working with someone who made jokes and was easy about showing his emotions was refreshing in comparison to what she’d been surrounded with of late. She and her workmate spread out in the dining room they’d once all eaten in to go through all of the files from Grant’s office.
Every once in a while, Tuck came in with a pile of printouts from the laptop and added them to their in-tray. As he and Zave pulled more data from Grant’s computer they brought it up for a second look, since the two techies were tasked with retrieving, not analyzing, the data.
“You’ve held up well, given all that’s happened since you joined the Kindred,” Thad said, putting a file into the done pile.
“It’s been tough,” she said, still reading. “You and Zave always show
