Alice walked to the print and scan room alone, the whine of the MI accompanying her as she collected her thoughts. The president—maybe the entire government—was corrupt, and something was happening she didn’t understand. But what to do? Crack Paulie out of jail, tell Conner, Xavi, and Toko to flee? But if this was as big as Four hinted at, where to go? Earth would be too small, so out into the system then, but was any off-world life real? What if it was all fake apart from the few moles left on Mars?