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+exactly what or who had hit me i wasnt sure but by the time i came around they had long gone if you
+will excuse the p unit was a professional hit just the right amount of force to knock me out
+probably no permanent damage the room had been expertly disassembled the shelves were emptied of
+blacks mission files and much of the steampunk technology had been taken apart presumably to make
+sure it didnt contain any further secrets the big beautiful roundtable had been cleared and ile
+anton it to steady myself as my head swami guessed that whoever had followed me into the tunnels and
+on into the headquarters must have known what i was looking for it was too much of a coincidence
+that they had found me here probably they were connected with the emails that first got me
+interested in black but in a confused state after my blackout i was puzzled why had they involved me
+perhaps they just didnt know how to find the shadow archive and hoped i would be able to help
+perhaps they wanted to implicate me in the theft of the shadow archive papers in that case they
+should have hit me harder i wasnt going to hang around long enough to get caught something was
+nagging at men one of the papers i had seen looked interesting enough to justify all this effort i
+turned my head cautiously trying to ignore the throbbing behind m year and looked around the room
+one more time to see what we were missing as i did so my foot caught on something and i bent down
+topic kit up when they hit me i had been sitting reading blacks codebook it was full of marvellous
+if dated ideas on cryptography and information security and i had just been reading the section on
+transposition ciphers it seemed he was particularly keen on columnar transpositions and was arguing
+that it would be best to read off the ciphertext column by column to confuse enemy crypt analysts i
+was musing on just how secure that would be when the world went dark luckily as i had fallen i had
+dropped the book and it had slipped under the table somehow they had missed it during the search and
+there it was hidden in the shadows i took a deep breath to slow the spinning behind my eyes and
+picked the book up but as i pulled myself upright again the tabletop shifted slightly to one side i
+struggled to regain my balance and the table moved again and this time i heard a distinct click as i
+shifted my weight the table rotated back and there it was once more a soft metallic c link as a
+ratchet tooth engaged i stood up grabbed at the table and pulled sideways it turned again clicking
+several times as it did so it was a noise i knew very well the tumblers on a safe made the same
+sound though much much quieter
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