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Relay matched his speed once more, and the two went to work. “On it. And my name is Riley… you can call me that. You don’t have to call me Relay like the team does.”
“Okay, Riley. I’m still… Killion, though. They all call me that, and it’s… my name.”
Without looking away or slowing down, she replied, “Nice, still Killion.”
“You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me,” Hen said. “He’s just like her. It’s kinda scary.”
“You’re tellin’ me. I’ve never heard anyone talk tech like that and be excited about it like him before. Maybe she’s just like him.”
“Either way, I have a feelin’ we’re gettin’ closer to answers soon enough,” Hen added.
Cane picked up his phone and took to his feet. “Hey, looks like they have the assholes from today in custody. Taking them down to the FBI field office so it’s on the books and official over there.”
“We get to sit in on the interrogation?” Baz asked.
“We get to watch behind a one-way window. Pete Langley runs the show over there. He has our back, always has. He’s running this one.”
“You got that Assistant US Attorney guy over there too?” Baz asked as they all stood and collected their belongings.
“You know about Carter Landry?” Cane asked.
“Sure do. Not much we don’t know about what goes on over here anymore.” Baz winked. “I was hoping you’d bring him in. If we want to clear these guys and anyone else who may have targets on them coming down the pipeline, we need this to go by the book, clean and no room for error.”
“Couldn’t agree more,” Cane replied, then turned to Killion and Relay. “Let’s get out of their way and see what we can get out of those assholes downtown.”
“We shouldn’t be long,” Relay said without looking away from her screen.
“Yeah, I’m already testing in dev mode.” Killion smiled. “You?”
“Same.” She laughed. “I knew this would be a cinch.”
“And to think… our fate potentially rests in their hands,” Wit said under his breath to Hen.
“What the hell is dev mode?” Hen asked.
“No fuckin’ clue. I don’t ask questions anymore,” Wit replied as they headed out the door with the rest of the group.
Killion and Relay worked swiftly and quietly, with little to no communication. They worked seamlessly, like a team who’d done this a thousand times together and did so without a single word between them. They motivated each other and complemented each other –– both determined to get to the bottom of the crisis at hand.
“I’m all loaded up, how about you?” Relay asked.
“I’ve been uploaded and operational for a few. Working on trying to track down who fed Ayelish the information on Wit,” Killion said. “Someone knew those guys were coming for him and used her to get him out.”
“I’m fully functional over here,” Relay said. “Looks like our program is working. What next?”
“We wait.” Killion shrugged. “I’m hitting a dead end with the source.”
“Burner? Bouncing the signal from tower to tower?” Relay asked.
Killion’s brow furrowed. “How’d you know?”
“Seen it a thousand times,” she said. “And it’s what I would do if I were trying to relay information and remain anonymous.”
“So it’s somebody who knows their way around technology,” Killion gathered. “But that’s really not that high end. Anyone in the tech field can figure out how to bounce an IP address from tower to tower to create a diversion.”
“I don’t know about that.” She chuckled. “There’s a reason our teams have people like us. We work with brilliant, highly trained operators, yet…”
“They need us for this shit,” Killion finished. “Good point. Maybe we’re the exception to the rule.”
