Oh, sure, why not? 😀 I really am still working on researching this, I swear.
There’s scraping on the other end of the line and Anderson’s voice fills the receiver next. “Good news?”
“Yes, sir,” Shepard confirms. “Plenty of stuff way above my paygrade.”
“You and Alenko get up here. Give me a full report.”
Shepard eyes Kaidan again, still scribbling furiously. “You’d better come down instead, Anderson. Kaidan’s got a hot line.”
The phone clicks and goes dead. Anderson is on his way.
He appears with Bailey minutes later, and without preamble says, “what do you have?”
“Think we go ‘em, sir,” Shepard answers, handing over their notes. Kaidan is still listening to line, confirming the repeat of the broadcast he’d overheard. “These are the rest of the codes we’ve been trying to break for months. If we’ve done it, and I think we have, then we’re right about Midway. The Japanese are coordinating an attack out there, as we thought before. I think what we have here are the ship movements and positions for the assault.”
“Big news,” Bailey says, accepting the papers from Anderson to flip through. “Hackett needs to see this. We’ve got plenty of vessels out there.”
At long last, Kaidan removes his earphones and passes along his notes for Shepard to confirm. “Apparently they think that the Enterprise and Hornet are the only two carriers we got out there.”
“I do enjoy upsetting their expectations,” Anderson says. “You did good, boys. I’ll take it from here.”
They leave and Shepard and Kaidan are alone again. Kaidan begins to shake.
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