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CHAPTER 74 — THE FIRST INFILTRATION

Author: Faithy
last update publish date: 2026-09-22 21:48:59

The plan took two weeks to build properly, longer than Sera wanted, but Marcus had refused to move forward on anything less thorough given what failure would cost.

"Four people," he said, laying the facility schematics across the table for what felt like the hundredth time. "Any more and we can't maintain the cover story. Any fewer and we don't have the redundancy to pull each other out if something goes wrong."

"Who," Sera asked, though she already had her own answer forming.

"You, obviously.
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