Kayla scowled and flicked him off. He laughed as he stood. “Glad you’ve still got your edge.”
He gestured for her to follow him back into the tech room. The camp was relatively clean, but most of the equipment was run-down or falling apart. More than a few pieces were only operating by utilizing a combination of creative engineering and sheer luck. She found herself wondering once again if building another tower was a real possibility. Even if it was, she wasn’t sure if the ruin rats would give up their nomadic lives for a chance to live somewhere permanent. Their distrust of OmniLab was so deeply ingrained they might reject it outright and claim it was an attempt to control them. It would have been her initial reaction too.
As they entered the tech room, Kayla noticed one of the compute
