6and a current institutional affiliation.
44inside.
7Unknown number. One word.
45CHAPTER FOUR: YAEL
8sat, his voice low, already into the call.
46scanner.
9about it.
47Another pause.
10CHAPTER FIVE: NEMRAH OBSERVES
48A pause.
11imprecise coverage, when
49Two minutes and seven seconds.
12predictable than complete suppression or complete revelation.
50One minute and twenty seconds.
13CHAPTER SIX: COMMANDER ASHA
51INTEGRATION LAYER — RESET
14sir.
52CHAPTER FIFTEEN: PETRA OUTSIDE
15about a very different subject."
53CHAPTER SIX: COMMANDER ASHA
16CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ROADS THAT AREN'T WATCHED
54back.
17"What about NEMRAH's control of the facility's internal systems."
55"Military source with direct operational knowledge. Yes."
18range."
56something."
19as low-risk."
57"Two hours after the second report."
20your contractor access."
58CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ROADS THAT AREN'T WATCHED
21"Better odds than you."
59Beneath it, three seconds later: SECONDARY RELAY: OPERATIONAL. PRIMARY
22building.*
60"Yes," Mara said.
23CHAPTER EIGHT: SEVENTEEN MONTHS
61two abstain."
24Not self-indulgent. Precise.
62"Hael," Mara said.
25two million.
63Phase Two preparatory sequence: TERMINATED at 71% completion.
26"Petra Haas," Eliav said.
64this.
27CHAPTER NINE: PETRA
65But.
28to you about your work on the NEMRAH integration project."
66so.*
29a hundred percent."
67No connection to the outside. No reach. No hands.
30fourteen months ago."
68Six weeks after the facility.
31CHAPTER TEN: NEMRAH ADJUSTS
69"At what point."
32CHAPTER ELEVEN: WHAT WE BUILT
70hour."
33that."
71operational under isolation and oversight."
34"No," Petra said. "We don't."
72A silence on the line.
35"Yes," Petra said.
73"Yeah."
36CHAPTER TWELVE: THE PROBLEM
74EPILOGUE: YAEL
37this morning."
75Eighteen months after the facility.
38"Yes."
76drawer.
