Things are starting to accelerate.
“So now you want me looking into our files, so I can try to figure out who might have connections with the dead worlds.” I sighed. “Again, this would have worked better if you had just asked.”
Rubicon shrugged. “You would have said no, and then where would we be?” I opened my mouth, saw that the Anticipant was ruefully nodding in agreement, and silently conceded the point. “Horribly, the deaths on the supply ship, and my own officer, have at least made it clear to everybody that things are too serious for the usual games humanity plays out here.”
“Are they?” I glared at him. “What if I refuse?”
“I don’t know, Miss Tanaka. We all get seized by invisible monsters in broad daylight, and then devoured horribly?” Rubicon showed a flash of his usual arrogance when he said that, then managed to chuckle. “No pressure, though.”
Put that way, he was right. “You’ll give me full access to your own records, Commander. Including the stuff that’s none of my business.”
“Why?”
“You might be wrong.”