“–don’t think you’re taking this seriously enough,” said Aldiss as he and the others entered the conference room. “They’ve got my laptop, which means they’ve got the models, the virus schematics, the vaccine formula – everything!” “Yes,” said Pace, taking a seat at the conference table, “but the...
Once around the corner, he had immediately changed his appearance. Most people only look at the faces of those they encounter, so even though I was right behind him and his clothes had not changed, he had been counting on my being fooled by a new face. It was actually a good strategy, and one tha...
“I’m in,” she said, with almost no hesitation. A natural beauty with straight, dark hair, she obviously had no problem being decisive. The response was the same from my best friend, Smokescreen. “You can’t leave me out,” Smokey said. As an empath, I sensed that he felt almost cheerful about it, (...
- before anxiously teleporting downstairs. I reached out empathically for the person on the other side of the door, then yanked it open when I felt the cool familiarity of the visitor’s emotions. I opened the door expecting to see Braintrust. On the other side of the door was a tall,...