Kris Longknife - Admiral by Mike Shepherd

Author:Mike Shepherd [Shepherd, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: KL&MM Books
Published: 2017-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

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Megan’s body sat in a comfortable chair, down in the cool basement of the Pink Coral Palace. Her head rested on the concrete plug that was supposed to resist all efforts by the humans to access the Iteeche network that had, previously, streamed out from the palace via that tunnel.

At the moment, Megan, herself, was somewhere in virtual space. She was one of those long-horned cows, trotting along, pregnant with data.

If the junior Navy officer had very much loved being a bird, she very much hated lumbering along across a dusty, rolling plain, bloated with data to the point of discomfort.

Nelly had used her facility with Iteeche to load them up with a whole series of questions she wanted answered by the Iteeche information system. That was what was in the digestive tracts of the ten beasts.

Megan was not alone; she enjoyed the company she was keeping. In addition to Nelly, Sal and her own Lily, today she was joined by Abby, Amanda, and Jacques’s computers. Nelly had also added the additional presence of Special Agent Leslie Chu’s, General Bruce’s, and Senior Nanny Gabby Arvind’s computers for a total of ten beasts trotting along together.

It was good that they were traveling in a herd and had long sharp horns that they could flick about with a twist of their heads. On both sides, as well as loping along behind them, were a pack of evil looking wolf-like creatures.

The wolves had been there when Meg and her companions materialized. They’d followed them as the herd took off at an easy trot in the direction Megan felt the urge to follow. The wolves followed them, never racing in to cut one of them out, but not letting them go anyplace but where they were headed. Megan lead the other nine; they formed a diamond formation behind her, Nelly to her right rear, Lily to her left.

The wolves seemed content to follow along on their flanks so long as they kept headed in the direction Megan lead them. Once, the human thought to edge off to the left, but the wolves would not give way and Megan chose to let the wolves provide the guidance she was none too sure of.

She needn’t have worried.

Megan topped a rise to see stretching out before them, as far as the eye could see, an apparently limitless herd of the horned beasts. She angled her small herd to the left, the direction all of them were headed in and kept them to the edge of the herd.

The wolves merged just as effortlessly into a huge pack of beasties like themselves that loped loosely along, not quite herding the horned beasts.

Suddenly, Megan found her bowels releasing. Rather than huge cow pies, the data left her rear as nice round pellets, more like a rabbit or a goat. She trotted along, laying down a long stream of data, and found herself feeling better by the moment.

This animal was clearly intended to eat data, process it, and eliminate it.

For a moment, Megan found herself trying to figure out what this metaphor was trying to show her.

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