Without Bloodshed (Starbreaker #1) by Graybosch Matthew

Author:Graybosch, Matthew [Graybosch, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9781620072783
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2013-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

he Phoenix Society failed to consider the comfort of future occupants when outfitting the safe house on Exeter Street. The house contained two dormitories instead of separate bedrooms. Each was filled with narrow bunk beds whose thin mattresses were covered by thin blankets. Naomi stole a few hours of sleep before dawn, despite the spartan accommodations. It’s like ACS again.

Sarah did the same, and snored softly at the other side of the dorm. Naomi sat up, and tried to scratch an itch between her shoulder-blades which she never quite managed to reach. I wonder if Morgan’s awake.

She rose quietly, and retrieved a fresh set of clothes from her footlocker. I might as well be ready for this morning’s raid. She found a long-handled bath brush beneath her clothes, and let a sigh of relief escape her lips. At least I can scratch this damnable itch.

She found Morgan in the study, seated before a terminal. She padded across the carpet behind him while fluffing her damp hair with an equally white towel, and brushed aside his own barely dry hair to kiss the nape of his neck. She resisted the temptation to question him concerning the tattoo she found hidden beneath his mane, which read as follows:

AsgarTech Corporation: Asura Emulator Project

100 Series

Serial Number: AE101/1010011010

Inception: 6 June 2082 @ 0600 UTC

She bent to taste his skin and make him shudder beneath her kiss. He only managed a sigh, and took her hands in his as she wound her arms around him. “You’re up early, Naomi.”

“Did you even sleep? You’ll be worn out if you’re not careful.”

“Claire got her hands on Liebenthal’s data as we were getting back. It’s an unstructured mess of documents and spreadsheets, and I expect we’ll be able to take Liebenthal in a few hours, so I thought I’d help Claire get the data prepared for mining.”

She nosed his ear. “Why didn’t you leave this to Claire and sleep? We need you to be sharp.”

An avatar of a young woman wearing glasses popped up on the screen. Most of her oxblood hair was bound into a French twist; a few ringlets escaped to frame a face too idealized to be Claire’s. “I’ll be doing most of the work, Nims. Poor Morgan just helped Claire work out the requirements.”

“Why leave this work to Morgan, when you’re capable of converting the data faster.” Not that I stayed up to keep him company.

Morgan chuckled. “Astarte refused. She insisted I work out the relationships since I’m the Adversary here, and therefore possess domain knowledge.”

“Also, we AIs don’t want you humans becoming too dependent upon us. Vomisa Principle Zero applies in this situation.” Astarte smiled, leaving Naomi to wonder if she was joking. She knew of only three Vomisa Principles of robotics and artificial intelligence; Dr. Ruth Vomisa formulated them, while designing the Sephiroth, to provide a basis for AIs to develop ethics which would allow them to coexist with people. “By the way, Morgan, all of your logic checks out. The similarity between your suggested database design and Claire’s is ninety percent.

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