Everyone stood in silence, all wondering if having to repair their systems, having to replace techquipment, and having to move their base of operations was in vain. Finally Helen spoke. “Sprite, did you get anything?”

Sprite slowed her breathing and removed her compuglasses and headset, nodding. “It’s still encrypted, but I managed to fragment the file and upload most to a cloud drive. I can retrieve it from a public port tomorrow and work on breaking the code offline on our trip back home.”

Helen smiled, glad the dagger was fruitful and glad that Sprite just called their base home.