Chapter 9 – Tango on the Catwalk (Part II)
Elaine shook her head. “If someone is spying on him by leaving bugs in his office,” she said. “It would take some intense training and habit changes for him to address his own personal security.” “Still have your mind on that bug we found in his office?” Frog caught the pillow, set it to the [...]
Chapter 9 – Tango on the Catwalk (Part I)
The gentle crinkle of ionizing air emanated from Frog’s skin as Hadaly gently brushed her holographic hand across her hair and back. The lights in Elaine’s room were off, but the suffuse glow from the various monitors, LED status lights, and Hadaly’s projected body provided more than enough light to distinguish the edges of objects [...]
Chapter 8 – The Instrument of Improbability (Part IV)
Larry Pilgrim spoke up. “Brad and I take German,” he said. “I’m a bit more advanced but he’s in my conversational classes. That’s how come I got caught up in all this. Do you need me to translate it for you? It says—” Elaine put her hand on the page, covering the text before Larry [...]
Chapter 8 – The Instrument of Improbability (Part III)
The entire set of testing took almost three hours as Brad had predicted and by the time they finished a sense of night had fallen over the Law Library. Even without windows open to the outside and the artificial lighting, everyone felt the weight of the day upon them. Elaine rubbed her neck and watched [...]
Chapter 8 – The Instrument of Improbability (Part II)
He ducked out of the room and Casey sat down heavily in a chair across from where Brad stood. He rolled his eyes and put both hands on the table. “Do you really think that I’m behind the fact this is still going on?” Casey leaned forward. “Give me a reason why I shouldn’t think [...]
Chapter 8 – The Instrument of Improbability (Part I)
Elaine stoically attended to other developing facts appearing in the datastream of Hadaly’s investigation as she and Frog escorted the trio of cheaters back to the ASU Law Library. Larry Pilgrim vainly tried to engage her in conversation with a dogged persistence; at first Elaine thought he’d been talking to himself, with the way he [...]