Dayo stayed out of the fracture between Hunter and Ren entirely, and he did it deliberately, the same way he'd stayed out of every internal conflict since the earliest days of the network's formation. When Sable asked him directly, over lunch two days after the confrontation in the conference room, whether he thought Ren should have said something sooner, he just shook his head and kept eating.
"I'm not going to answer that," he said.
"Everyone else has an opinion," Sable said.
"Everyone else isn't the person who has to keep Marcus stable while the rest of the network figures out whether it still trusts itself," Dayo said. "I don't have room for sides right now. I have room for readings, and equipment, and fourteen people who need something steady to hold onto while the ground under the
