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Colony Z, Chapter 5

Kylie surveyed the security logs looking for anything out of the ordinary. As head of security, it was her job to know what everyone on the ECS Gilgamesh was up to. The problem is nothing interesting ever happened.

Until now.

Kylie compared the video log and the security log and noticed a discrepancy. It appeared someone was in two places at the same time. The security log placed Harvey on Deck 72-B, while at the same moment his keycard was used to access the armory on 46-D. Strange. She pulled up video of the stables on 72-B and, sure enough, Harvey the horse whisperer was smiling at her.

So who used his keycard to access the armory? Kylie was about to pull up video of the armory when the hyperjump occurred.

If the deceleration was a halting subway car, the moment preceding the hyperjump was an earthquake. The ship vibrated violently, the rumbling deafening. The lights went out. Computer monitors flickered off and on. And after what happened next, Kylie completely forgot about the security breach.

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