What does Dagan's voice pattern reveal to you?" "An analysis is impossible without a base line of truth with which to compare his words and inflections for honesty." Starla pondered that matter for a preon. "Is there any type of device I can press against him so you can obtain readings?" "That is impossible. Without a foundation line for comparison, I could not differentiate between what is fact and what is prevarication." "That means I just have to go on my instincts and training." "They have never failed you in the past." "Hope and pray they don't desert me this time." Dagan completed a scan of his chamber for listening and observing mechanisms and found none. Afterward, he retrieved a cryptographic message awaiting him on the communications device concealed in his knife handle, the most advanced and smallest unit in existence. It told him that two perusals of his criminal record had been made, both from untraceable sources who had access codes to the same mass memory computer network into which he and his friend could tap.
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