The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia series) by Mather Matthew

Author:Mather, Matthew [Mather, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

The main action for me wasn’t out in the front of my life. The real action was in the backrooms, where Wally and I were working to build my growing hedge fund. My ability to consistently outpace the market using the new Infinixx distributed consciousness platform made it possible to do things nobody else could do. People out there were noticing how this pssi-kid was beating them, and I was starting to get some traction in the market.

But I desperately needed more splinters.

A few months ago, five had been enough, and then I’d expanded to ten. I’d managed to get fifteen by signing up for some beta testing under false credentials, but I wasn’t fooling anybody at Infinixx, and it had me constantly at loggerheads with Nancy. Almost as soon as I launched my splinter-matrix for the evening, she barged in, appearing in an overlaid display while I sat in the middle of my hedge-fund metaworld.

“Nancy, I am just as capable, and probably even more capable, than you at splintering,” I argued immediately, knowing what was coming. “I’ve spent more time stretching the capabilities of Infinixx than anyone.”

“We’ve been over this, Willy.”

“And I can beat the pants off you at flitter tag.”

Nancy rolled her eyes. “I’m not going to disagree, William. I’m just saying, if you were anyone else, I would have fired you already. I can’t ignore it anymore.”

She just didn’t get it. “Can’t you see I’m doing you a favor?”

She said nothing.

“Think of me as an advanced beta tester,” I suggested hopefully.

“William, I can’t,” she said finally. “Your splinter limit will be set at ten. I will allow you to keep using Infinixx to run your side business, but that’s it.”

Ten? My stomach tightened into knots.

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