Sycamore 2 by Craig A. Falconer

Author:Craig A. Falconer [Falconer, Craig A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Minter spent the rest of the morning sitting quietly with his own thoughts while Kurt slept. Stress typically stopped Kurt from sleeping, but in this instance exhaustion won the day.

When Kurt eventually woke up he went to find Minter, who was still doing nothing, and asked him what he thought about the idea of opening-up the phones Ernesto mentioned during the meeting on their first day in La Plethora.

Kurt’s intention was to give a phone to each of his friends in the mall: Minter, Ty and Lisa, Harry and Joyce, Anthony, and Mary. He had nothing against Val, but she was on the wrong side.

Opening-up the phones was a necessary step to enable Kurt to sideload a user-created app for chatting via wifi, which would allow them all to keep in contact wherever they were. Ernesto had said that Kurt could see the phones whenever he wanted, but Kurt had forgotten about them while focusing on more important things. Now that those more important things had run into a roadblock, he wanted to do something constructive at least.

Minter said it was a good idea but that he still didn’t want to go back into the main part of the mall. Kurt accepted this and went without him.

It happened to be lunchtime, so Ty and the others were in the food court. Kurt greeted them briefly but went straight over to Ernesto to ask about the phones. Michael continued to eat as if Kurt wasn’t there.

Ernesto led Kurt back across the mall into Home. The phones were in a box underneath the table where everyone kept their bags and cases. Ernesto gave the box to Kurt.

“Thanks,” Kurt said flatly. It was the first word either had spoken since leaving the food court.

Ernesto sighed. “Did Anthony say something to you?”

“He might have.”

“Kurt, I didn’t know Michael put those things on the computer. I want you to know that.”

Kurt laughed. He couldn’t even pretend to believe this.

“I swear,” Ernesto insisted. “Look, even if you don’t trust me, you know I’m not an idiot. Do you really think I wouldn’t expect the two of you to find something like that straight away?”

“You were in there with Michael when he did it!” Kurt said. “I saw you in there. I spoke to you in there.”

Ernesto was shaking his head. “I was there when he downloaded the patch, sure, but I wasn’t there all day. You saw me at dinner, right?”

The part about dinner was true, but Kurt couldn’t believe the rest. Even had he wanted to, he couldn’t.

Kurt left the phones on the table and went to get his laptop. Ernesto was gone when he returned. Kurt took his computer and the phones into the workstation and began working on them one by one.

The opening-up process was trivial. Kurt already had the application on his computer from before so all he had to do was connect a phone via the USB cable and click a single button. It took around sixty seconds for the application to remove every restriction and allow him to sideload a myriad of user-created apps.

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