"I have two confessions," she admits. "Tangentially connected. One, I'm
sure you'll hate. The other, you might hate but you'll probably
understand. I'm starting with that one."
She frowns into her tea for a second, but there's not anything to be gained
by dancing around the subject now. She owes Shaun the truth.
"There's a virus precaution I considered when I arrived but wrote off as
too extreme. I've had time to get to know someone who can pull it off,
though, and I consider it an acceptable risk, at least on the Barge. I'm
the only person on board who could amplify with KA, and death isn't
permanent here. So Iris and I linked a kill switch to the microchip
monitoring my vital signs. I've never had a false alarm. And she's probably
the only person I'd trust to do this."
no subject
"I have two confessions," she admits. "Tangentially connected. One, I'm sure you'll hate. The other, you might hate but you'll probably understand. I'm starting with that one."
She frowns into her tea for a second, but there's not anything to be gained by dancing around the subject now. She owes Shaun the truth.
"There's a virus precaution I considered when I arrived but wrote off as too extreme. I've had time to get to know someone who can pull it off, though, and I consider it an acceptable risk, at least on the Barge. I'm the only person on board who could amplify with KA, and death isn't permanent here. So Iris and I linked a kill switch to the microchip monitoring my vital signs. I've never had a false alarm. And she's probably the only person I'd trust to do this."