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separate the modules and sink them another kilometre or so. I stopped him and
shunted the sequence, but not before a few of the preliminary charges went
off. The ice around this module thawed just enough to cant it a bit. Come
on."

They came to another lock, but when this one cycled, they were staring at a
tunnel cut through ice.

"The next module came loose and drifted about ten meters. We cut through."

"It's {/cold/}!"

"Yes. We can't warm it enough for the ice to melt. But it isn't far."

It wasn't, but the next module was also cold when they entered it, a point
made most clear by the six rock-solid bodies in Psi Corps uniform lying in
various positions on the floor.

"I like what you've done with the place."

"We didn't do this. This is Psi Corps sacrificing its own."

"No need to get defensive," Garibaldi said.

"You have a knack for making one feel defensive, Michael."

"Nice to know the feeling's mutual."

"This was the archive annex. It's all here -- the experiments they carried
out on their own people, assassinations, the -- shall we say 'rewiring'? --
of government officials. Everything we need to sway popular opinion our way,
I think."

"That's great," Garibaldi said, meaning it, noticing Lyta's expression was
anything but optimistic. "We can bring this thing to an end." {/But not
before I fry Bester./}

"That's what I thought, at first," Lyta said. "But then one of my people
found something ... disturbing."

"Such as?"

"A file that had been sealed for over 65 years, in multiple encryption's.
More interesting still, it had a sort of lock that only a powerful teep could
trip."

"I've never heard of such a thing."

"Neither have I."