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‘It’s true, he really has gone insane.’ Archer stood rigidly to attention, as Kroll paced around his office, waving his arms and ranting. Like many people at Kaoteck, he was aware of the whispers about Kroll that were passed around in the halls of the pyramid. It was hard to say he had actually heard them, but he was still aware of them. People had a habit of clamming up when he was around, after all, he was Kroll’s right-hand man — in theory at least. But since the Cobra’s disastrous outing to the Frozen North, Kroll had been rather less forthcoming about his various machinations. The mysterious Echo project for instance.
Kroll abruptly stopped his ramble about Dr Singh’s failures mid-sentence and Archer felt himself tense up; it was almost as though the man had read his th
