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What do you mean?

Who?

What kind of experiments?

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I don’t know, but Resi said that’s why they needed me

Because my chip is still transmitting, but no one is looking for me

Same with the other girls

That would make sense, actually. You couldn’t experiment on a chip that had been disabled, but a runaway slave with a working chip would be tracked immediately. That must have been why they went after Maeve, after her owners abandoned her.

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Resi was helping with the research but they went too far, she said

Now she wants out

But we have to be smart about what we’re doing, or they’ll catch on

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Who’ll catch on? Max Langer?

But Maeve didn’t answer right away, almost like she knew something but for whatever reason was afraid to tell me.

Fuck. I never should have gotten her involved in this, let alone anyone else. I kept my circle small for a damn good reason. Maeve, on the other hand, was always doing stupid shit like opening up and trusting people. When would she learn?

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Maeve? I want you to stop whatever you’re doing

And stop talking to anyone

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But you told me to

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I don’t care, it’s too dangerous

Leave it to me from now on

I’m coming for you, I promise

I’m going to get you out of there

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But Resi’s going to free us

She just needs more time

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