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Chapter 32 Adequate shut out everything else and headed straight for Mesa.

The savant had been pouring over the pyramids screens for hours,

and by now she must have had at least some idea of what information the device contained.

Mesa and Emory were alone in a small common room down the hall from the med bay.

Emory paced by the door, balancing a bottle of water on the back of her hand as she marched

back and forth.

When Adequin approached, Emory snapped to attention, saluting to her chest with the sloshing bottle.

Mesa stood in the center of the room, shrouded in crisp white holographic screens, which projected

from the top of the burnished gold pyramid sitting on the floor at her feet.

The display stretched two meters wide and just as tall in a complete 360 degree circle around her.

Adequin stepped in front of Mesa.

The flood of light washed the savants warm skin and an ethereal glow.

She stared up at the highest parts of the screen. skin and an ethereal glow.

She stared up at the highest parts of the screen, then drew her gaze down to meet

adequates.

Exuberter, Mesa said, eyebrows high and expectant.

Then all at once, her features softened and she frowned.

How was the centaurian?

Adequin cleared her throat.

Still unconscious.

I am sorry.

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