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“No, Kate,” he said, “I’m a realist. I can’t afford to be anything else. If I start thinking like an optimist, a lot of people are going to die. Our agents need to be human, too. So do we for that matter.”

“There’s a difference between being a hopeless optimist and having hope,” Kate said, her voice soft. “I’d like to believe that a big part of what Room 59 does is finding that difference.”

“Maybe it is,” Denny said. “But in the meantime we have a job to do, and sometimes that means that we have to use people in some not-so-nice ways, even our own agents. Especially when it means they’re better agents for it in the long run.”

“We all get used,” Kate said. “That comes with the territory. But that doesn’t mean we always have to do the same to our own people.”

“Kate,” Denny said, “unless I miss my guess, by the time he lands in Anchorage, Jason will have already figured out that he may have to die in order to achieve some level of success on this mission.”