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The leader returned to work.
"You heard his report, Knight Commander?" the leader asked over the comm. "Satisfactory. Continue. What is it you have found?" The voice at the other end of the commlink was laconic, crisp, and obviously belonged to a machine. The speaker entered his or her words into the computer, the computer spoke them aloud. No one, not even the highest-ranking officer of the knighthood--of which Bosk's killer was one--ever heard the Knight Commander's voice. No one had ever seen the Knight Commander. No one knew his or her real name. All information was exchanged via commlink--voice only.
"Contrary to initial reports, Commander, it appears from Ohme's files that he actually constructed a working model of the negative wave device." "Indeed."
"The device was crude. apparently, but operational. Ohme's records indicate that he performed a test on a living subject. And that the test was successful."
"A living subject." Knight Commander mused. "How is this possible? He wouldn't have dared test it on Derek Sagan. And if I'm not mistaken, there were no other Blood Royal known to exist at the time."
"That is true, Commander. This was just prior to Sagan's discovery of the whereabouts of the young king. Snaga Ohme did not have a Blood Royal on which to test his device, but that presented no problem for him. He couldn't find a true Blood Royal and so he created one
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