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The resistance safehouse by the banks of the Western Sea was a single apartment located near the bottom of a residential tower. The view was thus unglamorous: the single broad window-pane looked out on the rust-stained face of an adjacent storage center. As such they had a natural shield from prying eyes, something Jao was very thankful for right now. He was already losing his nerves worried about Ania; throw paranoia in and he'd be a total mess.

As it was, he still required effort to concentrate on the matter at hand. He paced tightly back and forth while Eternals Yalta Val and Saarai occupied couches in the center of the living room and leaned across the low table to read from the same datapad.

 He paced tightly back and forth while Eternals Yalta Val and Saarai occupied couches in the center of the living room and leaned across the low table to read from the same datapad

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"This is the information Senator Gahan's contacts were able to come up with," Saarai explained

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"This is the information Senator Gahan's contacts were able to come up with," Saarai explained. "Actual locations for top-priority prisoners are safely guarded by the Federal Security Bureau… But our contact was able to pull these."

"They look like staff profiles," said Val.

"They are. These are key information for the FSB's incarceration officers, specifically the locations they were posted at."

"How far back do these records go?"

"See for yourself." Saarai leaned back so he could look closer. "It's the complete list going back to the formation of the Federation Triumvirate six years ago."

"I don't see what good that gets us," Jao said.

"We know Chalk has been moving Admiral Stazi, Senator Nelloran, and Senator Kaige through different prisons," said Saarai. "The issue is, we've never known whether he uses the same FSB officers to shepherd the prisoners to different locations, or whether he keeps the officers at one location and only moves the prisoners."

"I'd think he'd move both," Val said. "At the very least he'd need the prisoners guarded during location transfer."

"Exactly. That's what the resistance always thought, but now we have hard evidence."

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