Episode 2
Part Four
"It was him."
"Are you positive?"
"Of course." She tapped her touchpanel confidently as her Second stood over her. The video image on her screen decayed into a stream of static as she wound it back through time, then entered the command to re-apply the encryption.
"Why do we have to re-construct these images each time we look at them?" her Second asked, shifting slightly.
"Security, security, my datajack," she told him. "Until the information lies deep behind the Morgan Industries firewalls..."
"He cares more about this data than he does us." She noticed the unconscious clenching of his fist.
"Yes," she drew out the syllable. "Now look..." The video feed had decayed to a stop and now reconstructed itself through three layers of encryption into a face, a hard face with deep black eyes.
"Chairman Yang," the Second said, startled. "Looking right at us."
"Right into the sunglobe, you mean. He was there, and then...it looks like he stepped through a hidden panel."
"Well, that's somewhat useful," said her Second. "Another datapoint for the psychchart."
"That we even know what base he's in is useful. Yang is extraordinarily cagey."
"Where is he going, do you think?" he asked her.
"To the surface, my datajack. It doesn't take a probe team to see that..."
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