Tori gathered all five of them in the bridge once Gabe had checked her code, and together they sent their messages flying on an arrow of light toward the unlikeliest of heroes—Brian’s netball team.

“How long until we hear back?” Lu said.

“Well, it’ll take about 50 hours to get there and a bit of time to start working, doing its thing. Then people have to notice what’s happening and respond, and their word has to make its way back to us. Say four, maybe five days?”

“Won’t we be almost there by then?” Lu asked.

Tori didn’t like the way the math worked out either, but she didn’t see that they had a choice. “Yeah, but there’s no way to make it faster without using the quant box, and I don’t t...

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