Personal Recognizance [Sime~Gen, Book 9] by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Author:Jacqueline Lichtenberg [Lichtenberg, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-19T22:43:36+00:00

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Chapter Thirteen

POST TRANSFER

Keeping his post assignment appointments, doing almost without augmentation, adding the therapy sessions to his schedule and catching up on his course work left Vret in a mad scramble for the next three days.

Oddly, he caught up easily. There were times when it seemed like the world around him was standing still. He seemed to have plenty of time to read and think through what he was learning. And everything was interesting, even the therapy. Chez hadn't mentioned that affect from the Development track exercise.

But the more time he had, the more he tried to do. He kept dreaming up schemes to determine once and for all if Kwotiin had been reading his mind, or was just a good guesser.

Either way, they couldn't afford to let administration get a hint of Blissdrip's activities. Unless we have to tell them. And he knew they'd be better off to tell them before they found out by themselves.

In the therapy sessions, he never mentioned the Secret Boards, but somehow, as they covered the ground over and over again, probed and poked at how he felt about what had happened, he came to believe that if Chez had been driven over the edge by reading Killroom, it wasn't Vret's fault, but there might be some responsibility he carried, simply because he suspected the involvement.

At any rate, Chez had been sent to a facility that could provide the closely supervised therapy he needed, and all anyone would tell him was that Chez was going to be fine, too. Joran Nah appeared on campus again, foot in a cast, and nager gleaming brighter than the sun though he was very low field indeed.

Vret worked on ideas for finding Blissdrip via his transfer schedule and assuming he was in this Accelerated Development track. But reviewing the Killroom episodes by posting date, it just didn't correlate, so he gave up that idea.

Twice he saw Ilin in the distance, racing as fast in one direction as he was speeding in another. And once he saw her with a tall, stocky Gen who couldn't keep his hands off her. He didn't blame the Gen at all.

The third time, he saw her she veered from her course and paused just long enough to pant, “There have been eight more intil incidents and administration is hushing it up. See you in the cactus garden tomorrow at noon!”

“I'll be there!”

And she took a long pull on the bottle of water slung from her waist and was off at a mad dash just short of augmenting.

He crashed down from his idyllic cloud back into the harsh reality that if he didn't solve this problem soon, they would have to confess. His post-reaction was over. Blissdrip wasn't just a distant intellectual threat anymore. He was an immediate and terrifying menace.

Vret had grunted and groaned his way through the torture they called development clinging to the thought that this would get him into the Troubleshooters’ training program and into a really great and interesting career.

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