It might be connected to Project Palmtree and why it involves someone from Ouroboros working with anti-NEXTers.
["What? You've never had to do things you hated just so you could get what you wanted?"
Lane's words linger in Pao-Lin's mind like the beginnings of a headache as she continues sorting files and papers. She figures Hagelberg and Lane must have been using each other somehow, but Lane had seemed to be implying that Hagelberg was deeper in it than could be explained by pragmatism. It's entirely possible that Jake was in on the "joke," as it were, letting Hagelberg yank Lane around in exchange for a couple of tugs from Lane himself. Otherwise then that means that there's something about Hagelberg's power that makes her immune to Jake's mind-reading, which then leads to the baffling conclusion that Jake had accepted a clearly unreliable person into the Ouroboros ranks. That being said, she supposed it was entirely within Jake's personality to recruit someone he couldn't mind read just for the fun of it, regardless of the risks. Pao-Lin's an adrenaline junkie herself, but something like that isn't the kind of risk she likes taking.
She sighs and rubs at the bridge of her nose. There are not enough meatbuns in the world to help her with fathoming the minds of double-crossers and megalomaniacs.]
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It might be connected to Project Palmtree and why it involves someone from Ouroboros working with anti-NEXTers.
["What? You've never had to do things you hated just so you could get what you wanted?"
Lane's words linger in Pao-Lin's mind like the beginnings of a headache as she continues sorting files and papers. She figures Hagelberg and Lane must have been using each other somehow, but Lane had seemed to be implying that Hagelberg was deeper in it than could be explained by pragmatism. It's entirely possible that Jake was in on the "joke," as it were, letting Hagelberg yank Lane around in exchange for a couple of tugs from Lane himself. Otherwise then that means that there's something about Hagelberg's power that makes her immune to Jake's mind-reading, which then leads to the baffling conclusion that Jake had accepted a clearly unreliable person into the Ouroboros ranks. That being said, she supposed it was entirely within Jake's personality to recruit someone he couldn't mind read just for the fun of it, regardless of the risks. Pao-Lin's an adrenaline junkie herself, but something like that isn't the kind of risk she likes taking.
She sighs and rubs at the bridge of her nose. There are not enough meatbuns in the world to help her with fathoming the minds of double-crossers and megalomaniacs.]