2084: Book One: 2069 by Kadon Peterson

Author:Kadon Peterson [Peterson, Kadon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-10T20:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 10

I sat in my lab at four in the morning with a catheter in my arm, watching the steady flow of blood fill up a one-liter bottle as I reflected on the past few days.

Class was going smoother than expected without incident. They had learned how to grow their own meat walls, and how to build generators capable of harnessing the power of nuclear batteries, as well as where nuclear batteries could be found within the Tunnels. I taught them math, chemistry, biology, and physics in such a way they saw their applications in creating weapons of destruction and tools of survival.

Even better, their skepticisms had waned. With every day that passed, they were hollowed out. They were discovering the unutilized space in their minds, and they were quickly altering their personalities to fill it. They were beginning to see what I saw. They were beginning to understand what the natural human being was. They were realizing their own power and their common reality. I only hoped they would become the new set of Founders, once their Great Inclusions were deprogrammed completely.

Such a stupid mistake.

It was all a mistake. I already had my ticket and I kept watching myself sabotage my own security for the benefit of traitors with visions of their own fortunes, spelling out the end of mine. My baby was just a sack of cells living in a corpse, and she was so fragile and hungry and growing. Like the meat wall, she was hooked up to a blood pump which registered glucose, saline, hydration, and oxygen levels, as well as the status of the dialyzer filtering waste products from her blood and the percolator oxygenating it.

All this required maintenance every day, and I risked malfunctions every minute I was gone, but NatOrg had tethered me to their allegiance by retaining Fennec as collateral for any recourse I might had planned to take against them.

Even worse, that fox-girl enjoyed her time there, and she was shedding her mental defenses to accept the affections people gave her. Her sign language class with Rachel had thirty women in it, and she would tell me all about the gossip she had heard over our dinner. She even went to church with the class, which forced my hand to go with her, and while I was trading blasphemous notes with Lizzy, Cole, and Chris, Fennec paid attention to the pulpit and traded hushed words with Sam, Isabelle, and Joe. I didn’t want to suspect her, as she didn’t act any different in our private life, but I hoped she knew any attempts to gain her favor were efforts to pervert her mind to become an unwitting spy on this foreigner whose motives served a deity different from their own.

Thus, my inner turbulent thoughts.

Fennec was my nature, religion, and government, but if she subscribed to a collective, what choice had I if I couldn’t be without her? Perhaps I was being paranoid, perhaps females required sociability, perhaps females built homogenous cultures

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