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“There you are. Got a moment?” Annee asked as she entered the cockpit.
Marr was at her seat interacting with a complex set of screens. It was near the end of her watch. The launch had progressed without a hitch. The rig was now in orbit doing the countdown to the first traverse.
“Sure,” Marr replied.
“I did some further research into the situation with the girls we picked up in Maple Tower. I searched our copies of the Earth ID databases we use for verifying passenger proposals. I can’t find records of these girls. It is like they never existed. The proposals we received ahead of collecting them in Maple Tower appeared legitimate. It doesn’t add up.”
“That is interesting. I have also been looking into this.”
“Really, did you find the same thing?”
“Actually, I’ve taken a different approach. Purely by chance.”
“How so?”