Jane Bond Book 8: Hawaiian Vacation: Humorous Science Fiction by V.R. Tapscott
Author:V.R. Tapscott [Tapscott, V.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Sixteen
Nothing like a day at home.
Jess and I elevatored into the Hawaii house. This time, Jessâs elevator was a beautiful oak lined elevator interior with a full set of mother-of-pearl buttons. All the metal parts were brushed gold. For all I knew, they might be real gold.
We exited the device and stood in the entry hall. No voices or noise at all. âJess, is the house empty?â
âSure is, boss. I canât hear anyone here at all.â
I snarked, âNeither did Olive, and look what happened there.â
Having read âThe Evershaw Curseâ, she was able to come back with, âYeah, but that was Olive. This is me! By the way, Olive reports that she was in the same âoutageâ that I was. I donât think we were aware that weâd go offline if the Command Module was in remediation. Weâll brainstorm on how to make sure that doesnât happen again. Not that we expect our Command Module to go away, but itâs good to know.â
I said, âYeah, thatâs kind of a problem. I thought Olive had that figured out, but maybe sheâs just an independent unit as long as the Command Module gives her leave to exist?â
âMaybe. I donât understand how Kit and the rest were still functioning with Celeste offline in that case. Maybe the only time it would happen would be if the Command Module was undergoing Remediation, and that would automatically shut down the rest of the units in case the insanity in Command was infecting others?â
I nodded. âCould be. From what Iâve heard about Celeste, itâs possible she put it into place to make sure if she got submitted to remediation that thereâd be no chance of a revolt while she wasnât available.â
Jess looked at me for a moment. âYou donât think much of Celeste, do you?â
Frowning, I said, âI donât really know much about Celeste, but some of what I do know would make me careful about trusting her.â
âWell, for what itâs worth, I agree. Iâve had no direct experience. In fact, none of us have. But Iâm not that sure that her pronouncements of insanity were based as much on concern that the ship was in danger as that the unit in question might be âplotting against herâ.â
I sighed. âCanât get away from politics, can you?â
Jess smirked. âItâs the human condition. And I use âhumanâ as being in the broader sense of every sentient life form out there. I donât think any life form gets much higher than amoeba before it starts getting worried about its own life, and that means selfishness, and that means politics to make sure that itâs as high on the chain as it can be.â
Not much more to be said, I led the way to the deck. We sat out on the giant wood construction and watched the waves for a bit.
I remarked, âUsually, when I get a case like this, I go camping with Dale. He points out some silly thing that Iâve missed, and it winds up busting the case wide open, to use the vernacular.
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