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THEY WERE GOING TO make the switch tonight.
They decided that, after Iman and the others came back and confirmed that the Allion guards had combed the B sector and had not found anything. They had overheard that Allion knew there were two people involved, that they had come over the outside of the station and that the ISF ship was responsible for it. So while Allion was still looking, their attention was temporarily diverted away from the B sector.
The hypertechs didn’t say what, if anything, had happened to the shuttle or the crew and no one referred to Jas and Nysa at all.
Ari hadn’t yet heard anything from the Felicity, so Melati helped prepare for the operation. Unlike Ari, she had no specific useful tech knowledge, but Ari had assigned her the dubious quality of being not half-
