I desperately want to back out and be done with this senseless scheme after finding out that Lewis & Clark are using us as bait, but it occurs to me that if we don’t play their game the way they want it played, Forklift and I both might find ourselves answering a knock at the door late one evening. I’m locked in, whether I like it or not. The only option at this point is to hope we can play it better than they can. Regardless of what Forklift says about Ascension, I feel like that clichéd ship has sailed (another one we learned about in class), and we’ve moved well beyond that. Now it’s about Retaliation. Now it’s about going shogun on Lewis & Clark. They know about us. Who we are. What we’ve been planning. Where we’ve been, where we were going, who we’ve been talking to. How, how, how? How is it possible that they could’ve known? Unless...unless they were tracking LX since they were after him, too? Could that be it? Maybe they had his system hacked or apartment bugged. It’s a possibility, but I don’t know where Forklift met with him to discuss the plans or how much he told him about our motives. One thing is certain though, one simple, ridiculous, unassuming decision botched it all.
