The security station at the Morningside Rehabilitation Facility had pale, yellow walls. Five body scanners were spaced out on the white, tiled floor, each one shaped like a metal disk.
The three guards who manned this station wore blue uniforms with billed caps. They were clustered around the room’s only control console, thoroughly checking the readouts and talking softly with one another. Being in their presence made Jack nervous. He couldn’t imagine that any prison guard would like him after the trouble he had caused springing Cassi from her cell.
One of those guards looked up with a halfhearted smile. “You’re all clear, Operative Lenai.”
Standing on the scanner with her hands on her hips, Anna answered his smile with one of her own. “Excellent!” she said with a bob of her head. “I wa
