Idempotency by Joshua Wright

Author:Joshua Wright [Joshua Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-03-24T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Sindhu lay upon a soft, cozy bed, propped up slightly with some very large pillows. She held an ice pack the size of her face softly against her chin with her left hand, and her mouth was agape with a red-stained cloth wrapping around her tongue. Her right hand played with her hair, twirling it incessantly. She was fairly certain that she had sustained a concussion somewhere along the line. And her butt hurt, too, but she wasn’t sure exactly when she’d hurt that. In general, she was not happy.

After the android had been whisked away, a few other security personnel had helped her find the entrance to SOP’s operation. They had offered to carry her, but she ignored their entreaties entirely, nearly blacking out. At that point she reluctantly agreed to lean on one of the taller individuals.

The entrance to SOP’s offices happened to be within a slum shack only meters away from her final confrontation with the android. She walked into the shack and down several flights of stairs, then finally through a room with a large oval table, some couches, and some impressive media displays that covered every inch of each wall. After traversing one more smaller hallway, she ended up in a narrow room at the mouth of a cave. Ocean waves lapped against the rocks at the front of the cave; she correctly assumed a holoShield was guarding her from the ocean’s elements—along with anyone who might be looking into the cave. She could see out, but no one could see in.

A gentle knock rasped against the door. An anxious Sindhu twisted her head to see who was coming in, but grimaced from a pain in her unappreciative neck. She blinked hard and then saw a large crop of blond hair atop a round face leaning into the room.

“Hey, you okay to talk?”

“Thure. I’m dying thoo know whath’s going on.”

Sindhu’s unique accent, combined with a lisp induced by her swollen tongue, caused Simeon to laugh. His bass-filled laughter confirmed one of the infamous rumors about him that she’d found on the darkNets. As he moved into the room, her eyes widened and became fixated on his also-rumored flame aniToo.

“Thimeon?” she lisped.

He laughed harder.

“Yes, that’s me. It’s good to meet you, Sindhu.” He raised his hands as she was about to speak. “Don’t. I’ll do the talking; you rest, we’re going to need your help soon.”

He smiled and placed a kind hand on her shoulder. “I’m sorry for all the problems. You ended up helping us out quite a bit, though. None of our guys were caught on film; there’s no evidence of us down here at all. Although they will suspect.”

She raised her hands and tried to say Who?

“Probably some subsidiary of NanoRegenSoft, although I think the android is property of EarthwideGamingCorporation, which is a disturbing development in its own right. Don’t worry about that right now—we’ll brief you on the larger picture soon.”

Simeon took a deep breath and smiled.

“First things first: Thanks for the remote help you’ve been giving us.

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