"Not enough," I say, my eyes locking onto his. "The Baseline Coalition has the funding, the political capital, and now, the technological capability to wage a shadow war against the pack. If we just arrest a few scientists, they’ll just build another Scrambler. We need to dismantle their infrastructure."
"Luna, they are a legitimate political faction," Lin argues, his voice rising in panic. "We can't just dismantle them without a trial. The human public will riot."
"The human public doesn't know that the Baseline Coalition is trying to murder human children with a digital virus," I counter, my physical voice dropping a fraction, letting the cold, hard steel of my tactical experience bleed into my tone. "Morgan has the source code of the Scrambler. It’s traced directly to the Baseline Coa
