This… was the biggest hole in the book. And now it’s been sutured shut! Huzzah!
There would have been a stink about everything, except that, well, there was a giant hole in the cryo-tank and there was footage that did show us getting chased by a blue icicle. Score one for me not disabling all the cameras in the place. Maki couldn’t even complain about me butting in, seeing as I probably saved the lives of whoever would been closest to the morgue when Adam had eventually burst out of it.
She wasn’t happy, though. “You understand you got lucky?” she asked, almost viciously applying dermal paste to my poor, exposed neck and face. “That construct could have ripped you apart. Or Syah,” Maki added, possibly just to see me wince. Well, wince more. “Did you even get anything?”
“No,” I contritely lied. “It was all a waste of time. Whatever happened to Adam, it wasn’t what killed Burcu.” Admittedly, that part I believed. “At least we know that, right?”
“Next time,” Maki grated out, “try to prove something like that without risking your life. Also, thank you for saving mine. I had scheduled an inventory check of the morgue for tomorrow.” My being thanked like that made me feel even worse about lying, but it came out as extra contrition, which was just as well.