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intermission

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Cato

root

He lands silently on the balcony of the manor on the hill, glider folding up into his back. He doesn’t even look behind him, today – he’s flown over this city so many thousands of times that the dazzling night view no longer dazzles him.

He checks each of his other units that was active today. 03 is in its closet in the White Diamond, 05 is in a suspension chamber in the repair center downstairs (a quick diagnostic shows no real damage, that’s fine), 11 is stowed in a pod in the luggage center of the Dionysus-5 spaceport. All accounted for and active.

The memory download and consciousness integration takes only a few seconds, and the others enter conditional sleep shortly afterwards, only to wake if some brilliant individual decides to open a door labeled DO NOT OPEN before he needs them again.

He gets his report in order and opens the balcony doors.

Valentine

root

He doesn’t look up from his book right away.

“Come in.”

Cato

root

He does, and stands in front of the desk, hands at his sides. There’s no point sitting down – this won’t take long.

Valentine

root

It takes him a minute or two to put down the book.

“Report?”

Cato

root

“Swept Jewel Alley like normal. Everything’s running as clean as you want it to. Found the Red Toad ring on Broad Street, shut them down, sent the junkies to the licensed spots. And I dealt with Marlowe Ricks.”