Castle War by John DeChancie

Author:John DeChancie [DeChancie, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

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“Yes, there are any number of them. And I can get you to a pretty nice one. It’s just a matter of getting outside the city a little ways.”

“How would you do that?”

“I don’t know. Walk, take a bus. Steal a vehicle. It doesn’t matter. The main question in my mind is, can I do it without InnerVoice interfering?”

“You should be able to. You wouldn’t be able to sleep with me if you still had InnerVoice.”

“How could you get pregnant if no one was able to sleep with you?”

“If they had an order, they could.”

“You need an order?”

“Sure. You didn’t find the order to impregnate someone on your schedule, did you?”

“No.”

“Well, then. You wouldn’t be able to sleep with me unless InnerVoice was dead inside you.”

“Then that means there’s nothing preventing me from leaving.”

“Not if you actually have someplace to go. You say you do, but I don’t understand how. InnerVoice is in control outside the city, too.”

“I can get to a place where no one ever heard of InnerVoice.”

“Is there such a place? There are stories, rumors.”

“Rumors of what?”

“That there are Outpersons who wage war against InnerVoice.”

“Where?”

“No one knows. It’s rarely talked about. Just sometimes on the Information Specials they’ll mention something about ‘socially irresponsible outside elements.’ That’s how they phrase it, usually.”

“Rebels? An opposing military force of some kind?”

“Don’t know.”

It suddenly struck him that he didn’t even know this woman’s name. Wait; she didn’t have a name, only a nonsensical and dehumanizing jumble of letters and numbers. He really didn’t want to know what her cognomen was, much less her omnicode.

“Alice.”

She said, “What did you say?”

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