“Everyone and everything can be dubbed,” Amassa said firmly.
“You don’t understand. Philaskut told us Green’s crystal shattered right after they dubbed him. That’s the whole problem—they can’t re-create his pattern.”
“You;re the one who doesn’t understand. Maybe his original pattern was destroyed, but they can still make a copy of him the way he is now.”
Hawker tensed. “What?”
“I looked at him closely while you were under outgo. He’s got a transmitter in his neck, the same as I do.” She stretched out her throat to show him the tiny button implanted just below the skin surface.
Looking at the device, Hawker remembered Philaskut saying everyone on Cellina had one. Self-consciously he put a hand on his own neck, but felt nothing. “What exactly is that?” he asked, trying to sound much mor
