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*Tilts my head slightly in your direction, clearly having heard but not acknowledging the exchange*

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*Raises an eyebrow and holds my hands behind my back*
My own.
*The passage gives way to a pale yellow darkness lit by hovering bundles of torch flame radiating along a single corridor, the rest of the maze now out of sight*

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Are you able to use your powers to tell whether we're being followed? I have a bad feeling.

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I could notice it. I-
*Pauses and stares at the walls as we move*
Nothing has been standing out to me recently.

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I always wondered how exclusively you guys relied on him, in the handyman department.
*Glances down toward the floor as we walk, and the tone of my voice drops slightly, almost unnoticeably so*
Interesting to know there's some... Overlap in skills.

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You... maybe don't sound super ultra confident?

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Fishing for information?
*The torches flicker and the ground falls away behind us as we walk, tile by tile*

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Maybe a little. I've spent so long working on things and being at most a single degree of separation from a lot of your group's work, minor curiosities like that tend to develop. Can't help it.

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Tier Five has no single points of failure but no redundancy. Data interacts with you by choice, but by no means represents the Tier as a whole.

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*Silently does an explicit check for any nearby heat signatures that could indicate someone's presence, who isn't moving away from us*
I don't think we're being followed directly, but I've got more than one other things to be cautious about before I just go spitting out everything I know without a care right now. You know?

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*No living bodies are detectable around us, but in the distance, more scientists continue to buzz away from the depths of the lab, but they avoid the cold of the arctic*
You mean not revealing too much info to the fake?
*Glances over at the other Isis*

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I suppose I never would have expected that to be the case. But I know that you know Data isn't even remotely the only one I could be talking about. Just the most prolific example... Admittedly, from a smaller pool now than it was not long ago.

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*Sighs and just repeats myself*
More than one other reason.

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Those who attempt to ingrain themselves into the affairs of Tier Five tend to not last long.
*Pushes against space, which cracks in a rectangle pattern of light, opening like a door*
Not by our choice, either.

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Wait, really? What are the others?

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*Takes my suspecting eyes off the walls and back to the path ahead*
Maybe we're not being followed, but we might be being watched either way, for one.

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Well dad has security cameras, so I'm not surprised.

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*Nods and shifts to a head-shaking motion in a short span*
Not such a unique characteristic, in my relatively very small experience.

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Mhm. And who'd be watching them while everything is falling apart? If anyone is at all, I'd bet it's not someone who likes us so much.

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Perhaps not. I have not observed that your kind tends to seek out Tier Five's members, in any case.