“Let’s say it’s real,” Mahlo repeats. “If it’s real, then who wrote the file? And how, for that matter, do you, Ms. Quinn, retain knowledge of any of this?” “The file was written by Dr. Edward Hix,” Quinn says. “He used to work in my division. He’s dead.” “What happened to him?” “You don’t want to know what happened to him.” There is a very long pause while both Mahlo and Levene react to this. In fact, they pass through a long sequence of discrete reactions. Indignation at the seeming rudeness; confusion at Quinn’s incaution in front of sinister superiors; surprise at the magnitude of the
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