Keon tells Lacy to leave, because she mostly just stares spookily and doesn't talk much except for about the one freaky thing they have in common, plus he needs to fix a motorcycle, but coincidentally Lacy is from a motorcycle-fixing family, including her invisible drunken mother the motorcycle repairman, so now he I guess has no grounds to ask her to leave. Keon's like, "We can't be seen together!" but Lacy tells him to get with the Zen already, because it's just them and the machines. (Cute boys fixing machines one hundred percent of the time. But the difference in this parallel is that Zoë's the scary bad thing and Philo doesn't know it, while over here in this shop it's Keon who is obviously way more hardcore than he lets on, and Lacy's the one about to get burned.)
Singh's disappointed at the nothing they managed to scare up in Zoë's bedroom, because the only revolutionary thing she ever made was herself. They talk about how there was nothing in the school either besides some drugs, and while Singh's disappointed -- "You guaranteed me detonators and infinity symbols!" -- Duram just says this proves they're going after the right places, because clearly somebody warned the kids. He is, of course, extrapolating correctly that it's a kid army, but we've also seen that most of the STO getting rounded up on TV tend to be young as well -- so the next step needs to be accessing the kids' phones and e-sheets. Singh grins and points out how grey-area Duram's getting, but Jordan won't let him leave until he gives him permission. Singh employs some Tauron profanity in explaining that he'll have Jordan's balls if he's wrong, and signs off.
"That's a nice-looking chest," Philo mumbles to himself, and Zoë quirks an eyebrow down at him. "I think it looks great!" He runs a diagnostic, and after a few minutes of watching Zoë walk like an Egyptian, he turns on his iPod and cycles through a sort of Jars Of Clay jam, the Colonial Anthem, and then a much better song, grinning. He watches her dance while the music plays, and then decides to dance with her. She follows his movements, eventually picking up her own moves, and while he dances with his robot, she's dancing with him. The cutest boy in the world.













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