Listen and wait.

That's what you do when you hide in the dark.

And once you fired everything you've got at the monster,

hiding in the dark is all you can do.

One thousand.

Ever since we'd hacked into the Senate hearing,

I'd been listening and waiting, hoping our

testimony would find the right ears, afraid O' and I would find us first just sitting here

in the shadows.

I didn't know where O&I ended in the world began.

And it was the not knowing that kept me up.

Because even if we had landed a fatal blow,

all we could do was watch and wait for gory chunks to surface.

So far, the surface was calm.

The only thing I knew for sure was Meshach had never shown up.

Every day since had been sickeningly silent and every night my doubts grew darker,

haunted by scenarios that always ended in quiet black bags.

What had I done?

Pharaoh and Petroski could handle themselves, but if Owen I had come from a shock,

it was my fault.

And now they would be coming for me.

I'd been holed up here for days.

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