(eng) Niall Teasdale - Fox Meridian 03 by DeathWeb

Author:DeathWeb [DeathWeb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Four: We Hurt the Ones We Love

New York Metro, 2nd July 2060.

Kit stopped halfway through cross-checking her data for the sixth time. This kind of uncertainty in her own data handling and evaluation was not only pointless, but entirely too human. She was an AI, not an organic and… Well, no, maybe it was not a human characteristic. A human, far slower at data manipulation, would likely have stopped at three times, if they had got that far. Whatever the case, she had evaluated, re-evaluated, checked back to the source, twice, and evaluated again. She had tried three different methods of evaluating the statistical validity and that was incredibly stupid when the data points she was analysing corresponded precisely. Enough was enough, she was quite positive of her determination.

She had, after a day, uncovered three more evidentiary images or text documents indicating that victims of the killer had not been on the run LifeFit said they were on when they were kidnapped. That was a quarter of the known victims and enough to indicate that this was not simply a bug. Or that it was a bug which applied to a number of cases. She had decided that further evaluation of the runs the victims had stored on LifeFit was in order.

That was when the statistical analysis had begun, because there was an oddity which required further analysis. In every single case, the victims had undertaken the run LifeFit claimed they were on a few days earlier as well as the day of their kidnap. Not entirely unreasonable: these were their favoured routes and they ran them regularly. However, LifeFit gave a quite detailed view of each run, with elapsed times at various waypoints. In each case, the final run matched a recent one up to the point where the person vanished, down to the millisecond.

Kit had read articles on sports physiology. She had run statistical variance routines to determine how likely the correspondence was. The probability of such precise replication was so low that she had begun doubting her findings and the cross-checks had started. Well, enough, the data was saying something to her and she was sure what she was seeing was the truth.

But what was it saying?

~~~

27Lex was buzzing more than usual and Sam was vaguely wondering why, but mostly he was focused on the pretty redhead who was with him. Marie was just about bouncing. Her eyes were alight and her body was bursting with energy.

‘I know it’s not acting,’ Marie said, ‘but… Well, it’s sort of a bit like acting. Well, no it’s not, but it’s something that could get me some exposure.’

‘Oh yes,’ Sam agreed. ‘I’ve seen Lucille Graves’s designs. Exposure is guaranteed.’

Marie just giggled. ‘Sex sells. I want serious acting rolls, obviously, but I’m pretty.’

‘Agreed.’

Another giggle. ‘Thank you. I mean that I’m going to get parts based on my looks, at first, not on my amazing character-acting skills. I don’t actually have amazing character-acting skills yet. If I have a portfolio with some more… exotic pictures in it, I’ll attract attention.

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