The Future of Love by Aubrey Parker

Author:Aubrey Parker [Parker, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone

CHAPTER FIVE

“Have a seat,” Alexa said.

“I’d rather stand.”

“I am not your enemy, Chloe.” Alexa stood behind the opposite chair, hands across its back. Finally, seeing that Chloe didn’t intend to move, Alexa sat.

“You like old movies, don’t you?”

Chloe said nothing.

“Some of the movies you and Andrew watched, they were among my favorites. Old 2-D films we used to watch in theaters, back when I was a younger woman.”

“You looked about the same, though, right?” Chloe’s fists were still clenched at her sides. She thought she could feel the room’s electricity, sufficiently enough to plunge them into darkness with a thought. Whatever had gone wrong with her was now perhaps turning the corner and heading in a different direction.

Alexa nodded and smiled. She didn’t take Chloe’s bait, though Chloe knew for a fact that Alexa Mathis in 2025 looked almost exactly the same as she did today in 2060.

“There was one called The Twilight Zone. Based on an even older TV show. Did you see it?”

Chloe said nothing.

“There was one story about a kid with terrible powers. He could make anything happen just by using his mind. But he couldn’t control it. He was only a kid. The power was too big for him. He didn’t want to do what he did, but he didn’t know how not to.”

Alexa put her hands on her knees, leaning forward.

“I don’t know how it is for you right now,” Alexa said, “but I think you might be able to shut this building down. Maybe you could do the same thing to the city. Maybe you could touch all the air circulators in all the buildings in DZ and close them off or somehow send poison gas through them. I don’t know. I met you as a prodigy in my chosen field, Chloe, but I realize now that you’re much more than that.”

Alexa leaned forward. “What it is about you? It makes you special in all the ways O wants most to build upon: you’re intuitive, so you can adapt to and exploit anyone. You’re a perfect blend of mind and body. Your genesis is tied to what almost became the Anthony Ross life-and-sex app, so you’re a sexual savant. But that’s not all there is to you, right Chloe? Especially now. You feel your new power. But like that kid in the movie, you don’t know what it means or even how to use it?”

Alexa leaned back. “And that scares you, doesn’t it?”

Chloe clenched her fists. The lights winked off and on.

Alexa watched her, unfazed. “What I told the others is true. In one way or another, I’ve been looking for you all my life.”

“Bullshit.”

“Anthroposophy believes we find ourselves most fully through immersion in virtual worlds. It believes that if there is a God, he’s to be found inside. It’s not the blasphemy that some see it as. God takes many forms. If you believe, then God is everywhere.”

“I’m not your God.”

Alexa laughed. She patted the table in front of the chair opposite her. “Of course you’re not.

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