But how could the people with the most to lose possibly be as unconcerned as everyone imagined?
Of course they weren't.
That was precisely why everyone else had been allowed to listen in to their hearts' content in the first place.
All thirteen listening devices hidden throughout the lounge and the four more planted along the hallway?
How could D-29 possibly have missed them the moment the various factions started smuggling them in?
Who did they think had conveniently made those door locks just a little easier to crack when the little system had spent half the night angrily whirring that the spies sent by their enemies were so painfully slow at breaking in that it eventually had to help them?
The infiltrators never even realized that while they nervously worked and assumed they'd narrowly escaped being caught, one long-suffering guardian mecha had actually been stepping in to stop D-29 from sabotaging the entire operation out of sheer indignation.
