Then he remembered: Tegan always said the RM-44A was a “talking gun.” Not literally, but the onboard computer logged everything—firing angles, air pressure, even the shooter’s heart rate during discharge. Rodney synced the weapon to his datapad. A single file appeared, timestamped the night she disappeared.
A lockbox. Inside: a second RM-44A—identical except for the serial number. Beneath it, a handwritten note in Tegan’s sharp cursive: RodneyMoore 19 11 15 Tegan Mohr Model RM-44A XX...