Ahiga shook his head. “No. Even Matt doesn’t know what it is, but they transferred more lucole to the lab yesterday. He says they’ve taken something off site a couple of times in the last week, too. We’re assuming it’s for testing, but all we know is that lucole goes into the labs and doesn’t come out. But he did notice something interesting—a few ships that have left here were later tagged as destroyed.”

I didn’t like the sound of that.

“Whatever it is, they’re testing it, and I don’t think it’s going well.”

That was a win. One we needed, badly. “So it’s not ready yet?”

“That’s my hope.” He paused for a second. “Probably good for you to know that Bay Six and Two are now empty, and half of Bay Seven.”

That was fast. “Something tells me that I need to be gone before they’ve emptied all the bays.”

“Sounds like it,” Audrey said. “This is coming together fast. What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to keep my plan.” I had to stay the course. I didn’t have a lot of other options. “The test is tomorrow. I only need to be in the suit for an hour.” But even thinking about putting it on again and going back out there made my heart race and my breath short and my stomach feel like it was being tossed and turned.

“You can do it.” Ahiga leaned forward until all I could see was his face. “You can do this. You hear me?”

I nodded, blinking back the tears before they could fall.

“I already took care of the tracker I implanted in the courtroom.”

The tracker. I’d forgotten. “It’s still working?” I never felt any updates. At this point, I figured it was more for show than anything else.

He leaned back from me and waggled his hand in the air. “Eh. More or less.” He shrugged, and it didn’t fill me with confidence. “It’s something that Declan and his friend had been working on. More compatible for your kind, but still syncs with our systems.”

“I could take out the chip in your finger,” Audrey said. “It’s just dead tech right now. Why keep something implanted that you don’t need?”

It was a pain to get it, and I’d hated the thing with every fiber of my being, but it’d been such a pain to get it put in… What if I needed it again? “It’s fine. I think I’ve got enough to worry about without thinking about the dead chip.”