Sophia turned to face what remained of her team: Damien, Jay, Benito, Nasira and Lucia. Her attention sharpened on the two men who’d just saved them. This wasn’t the time for pride.
‘We need your help,’ she said.
‘Is there something you’re not telling us?’ Damien asked.
‘About what?’
‘Do we look stupid to you?’ Jay said.
Nasira crossed her arms. ‘Yes.’
‘Yeah, well an anti-psychopath Chimera vector is about as useful to Denton as a third armpit,’ Jay said. ‘And the Axel Salamander whatever-it’s-called is not something you’d go to the trouble of encrypting, yeah?’ He held up his hands in mock surrender. ‘I tell you what, you fill us in on the blanks and then we’ll think about helping your ass.’
Sophia knew she’d have to tell them the full story if they were going to help her, and quic
