“Aygar?”

Ford ticked off reasons on his fingers. “One, he’s got the perfect reason to be running the bases: he’s new to the culture, and needs to learn as much as he can as fast as he can. Two, no one’s ever done a profile on him, so no one can say if any particular query is out of character. In that way, he’s better than Lunzie; anyone looking for trouble would notice if she ran queries outside her field or the events of her own life. Three, even an attempt at a profile would cover exactly those fields we want him to be working on anyway.”

“But is he trustworthy?” Lunzie asked it of Ford, as she had been about to ask it of Sassinak. Ford shrugged.

“What if he’s not? He needs us to get access, and keep it; he’s bright but he’s not experienced, and you

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