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In the loft, Lucas considered the amount of data that could be gained from the devices he’d set up. Kai wanted an early warning system, but it could be so much more. Eventually, the weather would force most of the mics and cameras to shut down. But before then, a lot of opportunity existed to do amazing things with the information they could collect. Knowing the others would arrive soon, he set out bags of chips, the bowl of grapes, and the sandwiches he had been methodically making and piling on a plate. As he fixed lunch, he listened to the dings from his computer that told him another device was online and downloading information to the program.
He looked up when the door opened, an ingrained habit having him swap the bottle of mustard for the gun at his hip in a motion that was as
