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The Mag Force 7 Book 1 - Knights Of The Black Earth, The
Atec Февраль 16 2008 20:07:53
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. Xris recalled the old days. Why hadn't he ever noticed? Dalin Rowan had never come alive except when he was hooked up to that machine.
A lot alike. Xris flexed his mechanical hand. A lot alike ...
"Dear GOd!" Rowan was on her feet and moving away from the computer as if it were a bomb, ready to explode. "Oh, dear God?
"They accepted our stand-down code," Harry announced.
Xris was at Rowan's side. "Now what?"
"A trap." She was white to the lips. "It was a trap. They've put the worm on me."
The worm. A computer trace that had latched on to Rowan's transmission and would race like a heat-seeking cybermissile through the convoluted paths of cyberspace until it found her.
"Shut it down!" Xris urged.
Rowan appeared to be in shock. She stared at the computer as if it had physically assaulted her. A blow from a trusted friend, a lover ... "Shut the damn thing down!" Xris repeated, shaking her. Rowan blinked, sprang suddenly back to the computer. Feverishly, she issued verbal commands. When that didn't work, she struck keys. At length, she struck the keyboard.
"Harry, cut the juice!" Xris commanded. Harry spread his large hands, helpless. "I can't, Xris." "We'd lose everything," Rowan said in a shaking voice. "Engines. Life-support. Everything. I used the central computer. I didn't think-- There." She fell silent.
Nothing happened onscreen that Xris could see; he'd had wild visions of a blinding flare of glaring white light
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