Gibbon decided he’d concentrate on the practical aspects of the problem. It wouldn’t solve the issue among the team members but as he saw, it really wasn’t needed to be solved. He worked with people he didn’t like in the past, and they worked together effectively, when they could disregard their emotions. He just had an inkling that this time, it would be more taxing than any other time. His next question was to Cookie. ”Well, even if you don’t tell us who they are, some intel about what resources they can use wouldn’t hurt. It would at least indicate if we should be concerned about retribution, as Pulse suggested.” Giving some thought to the problem, he continued. ”And it doesn’t seem likely they would interfere until we are well out of the museum. They would risk losing the item they want. They also know they have the best chance if they let Cookie work without obstruction.
“What seems the most problematic in this is that if they get a whiff we don’t intend to let Cookie try the side job, they might interfere. And for this not to get to them, we cannot coordinate on the comm, and cannot discuss any more details wirelessly, unless we can do an encryption protocol they are unlikely to crack.”
