The original one that had gotten away from the clearing operation. And two others that were already there when Gareth found them.
Had those been the same three that approached today.
He pushed the pulse northeast and held it at maximum extension and read what was there.
The positions where the three consolidated signatures had been this morning were empty. The wider northeast block area was quiet. No active signatures in the variant movement pattern.
He held the pulse out and waited.
At the very edge of the fourteen block range, past the northeast blocks, past the area where Gareth had been tracking them, barely readable, a single signature.
Not three. One.
Moving further northeast. Away from the building.
He looked at it for a long time.
