Edge of Light by Jay Antani

Author:Jay Antani [Antani, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bandwagon Press
Published: 2020-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

Knocking at his door woke him. He heard the turning of the doorknob just as his eyes flickered open, and realized he’d dozed off in his chair. “Gavin?” It was Bollinger’s voice. Shit, Gavin thought as he sat up and swiveled around in his chair to face the door.

“JB,” Gavin muttered, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. “My God, how long have I been out?”

Bollinger didn’t answer, only stood there, glaring. Sooner or later, Gavin knew, he’d have to confront his boss over the experiments and all they’d been keeping from him. Okay, bring it on, he thought. What’s he going to do? Sue me? Ruin whatever is left of my career?

“Got a call from technicians telling me about a trove of data uploaded into our servers,” Bollinger said. “It doesn’t correspond to any scheduled test. Date-stamp is last night. You wouldn’t know anything about it, would you?”

Gavin stood, stretched. “I do. I know everything.”

“After I told you research on Bizarro was over, and we were moving on.” Bollinger’s tone grew louder. “What you did was a serious breach. On so many levels.”

Gavin held up one hand. “Say no more,” he said. “I’ll be out of your hair.” He picked up his jacket and bag off his desk just as a security guard appeared in the doorway. “Wow. An escort.”

At the door, he turned to Bollinger. “But before you clear out this office, JB, don’t erase the board till you take a good look at it.” He nodded toward the board, crammed now with a series of equations, a graph and a curious diagram of a sphere inside of which sets of numbers emerged like spokes in a wheel.

“What’s all this?”

“There’s a pattern.”

After Gavin left, Bollinger stayed on, staring at the board. He read off the equation on the top line under his breath. He considered the solution circled in blue marker and taken up inside a new equation beneath it. He backed up a step, tracking the integers and symbols of the formulas with his finger as a musician might track the cadence of notes on a piece of sheet music. His arm slowly dropped to his side.

Without taking his eyes off the whiteboard, he picked up the phone at the desk and punched a few keys. “It’s Javier. Can I get a couple of guys from the control room up here in Harrison’s office? I need fresh eyes on something.”

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