Walking among us?”For the first time Chief sounded truly astonished. He was sitting in a chair next to his small wooden desk in his quarters, leaning back, rubbing the armrests of his chair so hard I thought the fabric would get torn off.We’d known they’d been in before the Stacks showed up, but none of us had thought about the Site being infiltrated. When I thought about the CR-3ans watching us I figured they had a monitoring system, maybe the Stacks themselves collected information. I hadn’t thought of them here, walking next to us, undetected.“They must have cloaking tech,” I answered.Somewhere in the midst of all of it Morgan had disappeared. I’d run to get Chief.Of course, Chief Upton was much more concerned about Demetri’s death and the appearance of the Local than he was about Morgan.“I’m sorry,” I heard Chief say. I looked up, realizing I’d been distracted by my own thoughts. I was sitting cross-legged, one knee under my chin, in a chair across from him.“For what?”
