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"Hlances at the ht wind of those, we encouraged our international partners to lock down as many of them as they could find"

I cock my head "You did?"

"Yes, John, of course we did That said, sohed at ical rocks Not to mention, we only know the location of a fraction of these Loralite growths"

"How many human Garde have been intercepted?" I ask, ily "For their own protection Most of the we survive the next few days, maybe we can discuss how you’ll train them With proper supervision, of course"

I don’t like this It feels like we’re giving away tooover the Loralite locations to Lawson, not tohuman Garde he’s so interested in Still, what choice do we have? Practically speaking, using the Loralite stones is our only way to get a counterattack ready fast

"We’ll help you locate the rest of the Loralite," I tell Lawson "Once we’re ready todevices"

Lawson smiles at my reluctant concession but moves on quickly "That’s transport squared away It still doesn’t solve the probleh, we’ll just have to get youto take shape in o somewhere that we knoill have a lot of them"

"And where is that?" Lawson asks

"One of the warships," I reply

"Didn’t I just explain--?" Lawson snaps, frustration breaking through his patient granddad routine for a ets hold of himself quickly "If we attack the waste to another one of our cities"

"What if we could get in and out of one of their warships without the?" I pose this to Lawson, but it’s Six who I’ at She set you a battalion’s worth of cloaking devices before the Mogs even notice they’re ?"