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A twig snapped in the darkness. Steve’s hand went to the revolver at his side. But it was only a peccary, rooting among the fallen leaves. Steve relaxed, but his nerves were on edge.

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His guide, a half-breed named Manuel, turned and grinned. His teeth were white in the dusk of the trail. A twig snapped in the darkness

The core chamber. A vast, circular hollow at the heart of a supercluster of redwoods. In the center, a single, pulsing orb of soft blue light—a bioluminescent server core, its data stored in the genetic memory of the trees themselves. Around it, on crystalline display tables, were the access terminals. I touched one. a half-breed named Manuel