(Theo POV)Nobody moved for a while after the door closed.I looked at the ceiling and then at the paper and then at Curtis."Talk," I said.Curtis came to the table and sat down and picked up the paper and read it again, his eyes moving along the lines slowly. He put it back down and turned it so the seal was facing me and tapped it once with the eraser end of the pencil."We talked while you were out," he said. "Before she arrived. About the cache and the northern positions and what comes next for the movement now that D-Day is off the table." He paused. "And then she knocked on the door.""You talked to her without me," I said."You were walking," Jake said, not unkindly."What did you decide," I said.Curtis looked at the paper. "The mineral compound is real," he said. "I had heard about it before, not in these terms, but there were rumours two years ago about the research team running tests in the n
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