Building a Hero: The Complete Trilogy by Black Tasha

Author:Black, Tasha [Black, Tasha]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: 13th Story Press
Published: 2016-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

20

West wondered if Cordelia would still be waiting for him.

As simple as Mallory had made it sound, the procedure still took a few hours. Cordelia was very determined to do as much as she could for the company, picking up his slack to keep the board under control. He shouldn’t have surprised her with this, but she’d given him little choice. He was sure if he’d asked, she would have found a reason to stay no.

But when they emerged from the tent, Cordelia was sitting on a lab stool, three of the scientists gathered around her chatting.

“Cord,” he said and her neck snapped around as if she were a dog, trained to his voice.

Mallory led him to the table where Cord sat, and then very carefully uncovered his new eye.

What he saw was fuzzy at first, like a camera that was zoomed in too far.

West took a breath and concentrated. Mallory had explained that teaching his brain to focus the eye was just like when he had to learn to walk again. Everything was there, but the wires were all crossed up.

Fortunately, West had been in the lab practicing with an externally mounted unit, so he wasn’t starting from scratch today. Those first few attempts had been rough - a lot of falling over, and even some throwing up from the extreme vertigo.

But after a few weeks of trying, he was finally getting the hang of it.

Cordelia’s image swam into view.

She looked worried.

She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

He smiled at her, wishing he could make her as happy as she made him.

Before his eyes, she relaxed and smiled back a genuine smile.

“That is amazing,” he whispered.

Cord moved toward him.

But she was moving too quickly. West couldn’t follow her with the new eye.

His eyes were seeing two different things.

He tried to step back, but his head was reeling from the overlapping signal.

He felt the world fall away beneath him, and he landed hard on his ass on the concrete floor.

Cordelia gasped.

He squeezed his eyes closed to block out the looming world. Apparently, he still needed a little more practice.

But a moment later, he felt Cordelia at his side on the floor.

Everything was going to be all right.

She slid one arm under his and helped him up.

When he was standing and they each had an arm around the other, he dared to open his eyes again, slowly.

“That’s better,” he said.

“What is it like?” Cordelia asked him. “Is the vision actually as good as a real eye?”

“Better,” Mallory answered. “It has twice the resolution of the human eye, and greater depth of focus. It’s a lot more complicated than that, but you could think of it as an insanely high end camera. You could zoom in and tell the sex of a fly on that wall over there. If we had flies in here, that is. Which we don’t. But it will take some time for the focus to become natural, as we just saw.”

“So, no helicopter piloting?” West joked.

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