Recruitment by K. A. Riley

Author:K. A. Riley [Riley, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

My head is a chaotic mess. I wish I could press pause on the world for two minutes, so I could catch my breath and pretend I’m a regular human being for a change. But the world isn’t listening, and the clock’s ticking.

What were the choices again? She threw everything at me so fast. Even at my best and most focused, there’s no way I could have retained it all.

“I need to see the options written out,” I mutter to myself.

Grabbing the stylus, I start scrawling on the sensor pad. The words hover before me, glowing faintly gray in the air above the table. I start by jotting down Hiller’s four rules, but they’re too long and hard to remember, so I wave my hand over the screen like I used to see Dad do on a similar piece of equipment back home before we lost power.

My hovering notes disappear.

Think like Dad, I tell myself. Think visually.

I haven’t used tech like this since I was six, but it comes back to me in a rush, along with what Dad called my “natural ability to think like a techno-organism.” When I was little, I thought it was an insult. Only later, after my bond with Render started to solidify, did I start to see it as my father’s greatest compliment.

I quickly sketch out a diagram of Hiller’s dilemma:

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