He pawned the idea off on Wright almost as an afterthought. She chewed over that for a second, trying to puzzle out the meaning. These words were his own, she determined, but he was reticent to own them. Something he didn't want to be talking about, she thought... but maybe that was idle projection. He'd started the conversation, after all.

"That implies there's a lot of them," she pointed out. "Isn't that exactly what people are worried about?"

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