Sherdan's Prophecy by Jess Mountifield

Author:Jess Mountifield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, science fiction, utopia, christian, dystopian, sherdan
Publisher: Red Feather Writing

Chapter 21

The moment Sherdan had left her, Anya stepped to the other side of the bed and activated her power. Her clothes dropped to the floor, out of view of the door so at a glance they wouldn't be noticed. She contemplated going into the control room after him but realised that now was also a good opportunity to check over her test results for herself.

She walked through the door and went towards the lab. She only got lost and had to backtrack a few times, before she found Hitchin's lab.

On the way, she moved out of the path of people whenever they came towards her. Not only did she not like the feeling of walking through something, but she wasn't sure if other people would feel her moving through them as well.

Annoyingly, Hitchin was in his lab when she got there. He had several machines going and Anya assumed that he was making more enzyme. She went over to his computer. The monitor faced away from the area Hitchin worked in and with all the noise from the machines any sound of her keystrokes would be covered.

She nudged the mouse, getting rid of the automatic screen-saver. Hitchin's login bar came up. His user name was saved and already there. She frowned. Passwords had never been her strong point.

Her first try was 'password' but expectedly it told her she had only two tries left. Her second attempt was 'Steven'. Sherdan had told her it was Hitchin's middle name, although Hitchin often told people he didn't have one because he thought it common and boring.

Anya hesitated over her third try. It was her final attempt before the computer locked her out of the system for a while. Throwing caution to the wind she typed in 'Sherdan' and hit enter.

'Access Denied' flashed up on the screen for a third time. Rather than disappearing as it had the previous times, it stayed with a five minute timer. It had already counted down a few seconds.

Not wanting to sit and wait until it finished, she wandered around the room. It didn't take long for her to be drawn to the whirring machines. There were hundreds of test tubes full of a pale pink liquid. On each one she saw a little label with 'ENZ351' on it.

Suddenly the password clicked in Anya's head and she rushed back to the computer. Hitchin still sat undisturbed at the other side of the room, absorbed in checking things with his microscope. The timer had over a minute left on it, but watching it count down made it feel even longer.

She tried really hard not to tap her fingers or breathe too loudly while she waited. The last thing she needed was for her impatience to disturb Hitchin.

Eventually, the computer allowed her back to the login screen. With her breath held she typed in the enzyme's code. She smiled as the computer desktop appeared before her eyes.

For a moment she stared at it. She had a Mac, like a lot of the creative people she knew, and hadn't used a computer with Windows on it for many years.

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