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“Holly is right,” Mike stated once Miranda had explained the situation. “You can’t reveal the real cause to the Chinese of why their Shenyang J-31 jet went down. It would be a disaster. Perhaps even war.”
“But it’s what happened.” Miranda felt miserable. Now she was the one stating the obvious. Did the predilection cross genders?
“What if that wasn’t what happened?” Mike was staring at something over her head, but when she turned, all she saw was the hangar’s wall.
“Another reason!” Holly jumped in. “You said that to their imaging, the MQ-45 Casper drone looked like nothing more than a reflection. Let them think it was a reflection and that something else brought it down.”
She wanted to say, “But it didn’t!” Suppressing the reaction was hard.
“Right. You said dead planes didn’t li
