Lotus Oden. He also had to consider that all of this letter was a fabrication. It didn't matter. A flash of her beseeching green eyes flashed before his and suddenly he found himself considering how, for a moment, he could have looked into them and not given credence to a word she spoke. If he hadn't spent so much time keeping her in line, speculating on her loyalty, following her around, with Lila's specter following him, they might have pulled this off together. And now he'd gone and made it seem like going solo was the best option. But he had to keep his head in the game. He sorted through his registry to discover the source of her program, so that he might terminate it and pursue her. Damn, damn, damn. She had broken into the entire Specter network, and he had started it. The outrag

