[Ouch! That was Naxorian cliché, actually. Sasha is intimately familiar with the ways this script can fail--it was unfair of her to attribute her own childhood tactic to the Shuos--but she's at a loss for a better one.]

Sasha keeps working. Ashari hasn't appeared, which might mean that she hasn't fucked this up yet, or that they're distracted by other events, or that they're waiting for a more dramatic moment. Sasha checks the stream of data from the station and sees that the Rahal are proceeding as planned; that means the first and third options are most likely.

Destabilizing Mishka's augment goes more quickly than Sasha had expected. It shuts down and starts up again twice, in rapid succession. Sasha doesn't have control yet, but she's learning a lot about the model.