Make it So! by Christian Kallias

Author:Christian Kallias [Kallias, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

11

Kevin was counting the minutes until the AI had to power down to regenerate. On his way back to his quarters, he noticed that the cell he was previously held in wasn’t that far from where he was sleeping now.

He would only have five minutes to act and while this didn’t give him enough time to try and free himself from the AI, perhaps he could check on Leg’olas.

Why aren’t you sleeping? asked 8-3-9-6.

It’s hard to find sleep when one knows that the next day they’ll be assassinating the most important man in this galaxy.

You shouldn’t worry yourself with such thoughts, it’s not like you have any choice in the matter.

Look, you don’t have emotions, but I do. And I think that’s why our brains are superior and why they wanted me for this mission.

Your brain has an incredible ability to learn fast. But I doubt your emotions are the reason. If anything, emotions are hindering your potential.

Well, believe what you want.

I can’t have you pass out from tiredness tomorrow, and this could put both our existences in jeopardy. I could zap you unconscious if that would help you sleep.

If you want to take the risk to damage my brain and perform mediocrely tomorrow, be my guest. Perhaps if you stopped chatting me up I would have an easier time at finding sleep.

That’s a fair point.

Interesting. Kevin had simply assumed that maybe the brain zappings might be detrimental to his brain efficiency over the long run, but that had been a bluff on his part. Apparently, that was something he could use against the AI.

It would also help if I could find a comfortable position to sleep.

I need to recharge anyway, I’ll go into regeneration mode now, so you can adopt whatever sleeping pose you want. But no funny business while I’m offline, or there will be hell to pay.

Understood. Good night.

A bleep resounded inside Kevin’s mind and all at once he recovered access to his body. Even though it would be a short reprieve, it felt amazing to be able to move again freely. Kevin jumped out of bed and exited his quarters.

A guard was waiting outside and he raised his weapon at Kevin.

Kevin swallowed hard and tried to make his voice as emotionless as possible.

“This body’s muscles are frail, if I don’t use them every few hours, they lose efficiency. With your permission, I’ll take a walk and return here within five minutes.”

The pirate guard nodded. “Understood, five minutes.”

Kevin walked at a normal pace until he was no longer in the guard’s sight and sprinted to his old cell. There was a door control, which he pressed, half expecting it not to work. But to his surprise, the door slid open.

He entered and crouched. “Leg’olas, are you here?”

Kevin heard a high-pitched cry and Leg’olas jumped out of the darkness and landed in front of him. She kept jumping around him.

“Kevin!” she said. “I thought I’d never see you again.”

“Settle down, I need to talk to you, we don’t have much time.

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