"There was no sign of anything wrong in the last message we received... which, of course, is part of the problem," Wisteria said, sighing, "Everything went from perfectly normal to radio silence without warning. There was a catastrophe in the area, but the city avoided it without any problem. The delays in communication [i]that[/i] caused may have obscured whatever we could find out."

The sarkaz drummed her fingers idly on the vehicle's roof, thinking over Monarch's question. "If they've managed to duplicate it, there's not much we can do; wholesale destruction would be pushing our luck too far. If it's only stolen samples, then we can simply take or destroy whatever we find."

"I [i]hope[/i] the same catastrophe that might have ruined our news has kept anyone from getting out of the city with any parcels already. Finding that out should probably be our first goal."

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