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MELATI GOT CHANGED first since she was certainly not going to a funeral in ISF uniform. Her suggestion that the two constructs do the same met with blank looks. Possibly they didn’t have any non-uniform clothes.
She’d explained, “You’ll stand out like crazy.”
But then again, maybe that was the point—Cocaro’s way of warning StatOp that ISF was starting to take the situation in the station seriously. Maybe, too, it was Cocaro’s way of sending someone into the station to report back to her. Great.
Desi she knew from her guard duty, and she was a true fighter, dressed in a thick, metallic grey suit of a type Melati had not seen her wear before. She wore shoulder pads, knee pads, tall boots, a bullet and laser-proof vest and a wide belt that bristled with weapons that would make the hype
