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Location: Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Dreaming part 2

CE cracked his eyes open. His head was smashed into a soft white pillow and he could barely see past the edge of this unfamiliar bed. The blurry forms of furniture, windows, and plants blended together. CE lay perfectly still, unsure of how real this place was. The shapes slowly came into focus around him. As the blob that was a chair materialized, the shape of a sitting man appeared with it. Greg sat across the room, leaning forward, watching as CE came back to his senses.
"Are you feeling alright?" Greg asked.
"I guess I'm ok." CE partly sat up, leaning back on his elbows in the bed.
"You had a little party of at GTs."
"Where am I?...How did I get here?"
"What you just experienced will change your world. You probably have figured out that those engineered plantaines have a little side-effect that we didn't expect."
"That's an understatement."
"Look, a lot of people have are depending on this transfer going smoothly. I'm not sure GT would have let you out of that place in one piece if I hadn't stepped in. It's a good thing you're no saint. I told Mr...GTs boss...that if i could talk to you a little bit you would probably be a great help to us."
"Nothing I did so far is against the law, as far as I know."
"The girl you were with last night, she turned up dead. Someone raped and strangled her."
The walls took on new meaning. They seemed to press in a little. All of a sudden the air seemed a little thicker, and hotter. CE knew he could be easily tied to her. The story was too far fetched and could he trust the local officials? He had no data access, no assistants, nothing. He was alone.
"What do you want me to do?"
"For starters you can submit all the reports to authorize the transfer. I'll get you all the paperwork."
CE rubbed his eyes hoping this would all go away "OK"
"and you have to surrender control of Carey to us"
"What? Why?"
"You already put her on our trail and gave her enough information to expose this whole thing. We have her contained for now but she is running every program imaginable and a few more trying to get out. We'll clean her up and get her back to you."
It wasn't so simple. Carey evolved through thousands of hours of interactions with CE. Any tinkering with the data would change her.
"Look, you don't really have much choice here. Here are some clothes. Get yourself cleaned up and come down for some coffee. We'll go over to the plant and start getting things together."

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