Fate bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing aloud. "Oh good; we're making progress! Since you're planning on coming around to sniff me and all," he teased. "For the record, this wench smells like a fucking bouquet of synthetic Shasta daisies. If that smells like ham to you...guess I don't need to worry about your teeth. Some days it's good to be abhorrent."
He snickered. "But pink? Pretty damn sure I glow in the dark--but the hair is a determined shade of manly red, thank you very much."
"You would think that, because you've never tried to reverse-engineer an idiot's idea of what code should look like. Pros are elegant. Patterned. Things work right, so it's easy for me to make them work a different way. It's like listening to a symphony, but with my eyes. Amateurs code like they've taken a bandsaw to half the instruments, soldered them to the floor, and then tried crowd-surfing the rest of them because they don't understand what's actually required to play the music in front of their noses. I can't make heads or tails out of what they're trying to do, because half of it doesn't work at all, and the other half is shit of a galactic scale." He slammed his fingers across two different keyboards. "In this case, they triggered what I didn't, so we both get the joy of an extra cardio workout."
Telling her to run had expended the last of his ability to split his attention between the Net and the real world. Surely she was almost there. He'd give her the best chance he could. Words of reassurance--or of any sort--were impossible to give her as his implants took over and his mind dug into the problem at hand with voracious intent. Someone was indeed coming down, a personal shuttle had landed, an army of personnel had appeared and cut through his simulated crowd as though their augmented reality filters were on a closed circuit. He had the impression they might not be looking for his charge at all.
Fate couldn't relax. Given the way they just lasered that hobo on the bottom right screen, it might not matter who they're hunting.
He snickered. "But pink? Pretty damn sure I glow in the dark--but the hair is a determined shade of manly red, thank you very much."
"You would think that, because you've never tried to reverse-engineer an idiot's idea of what code should look like. Pros are elegant. Patterned. Things work right, so it's easy for me to make them work a different way. It's like listening to a symphony, but with my eyes. Amateurs code like they've taken a bandsaw to half the instruments, soldered them to the floor, and then tried crowd-surfing the rest of them because they don't understand what's actually required to play the music in front of their noses. I can't make heads or tails out of what they're trying to do, because half of it doesn't work at all, and the other half is shit of a galactic scale." He slammed his fingers across two different keyboards. "In this case, they triggered what I didn't, so we both get the joy of an extra cardio workout."
Telling her to run had expended the last of his ability to split his attention between the Net and the real world. Surely she was almost there. He'd give her the best chance he could. Words of reassurance--or of any sort--were impossible to give her as his implants took over and his mind dug into the problem at hand with voracious intent. Someone was indeed coming down, a personal shuttle had landed, an army of personnel had appeared and cut through his simulated crowd as though their augmented reality filters were on a closed circuit. He had the impression they might not be looking for his charge at all.
Fate couldn't relax. Given the way they just lasered that hobo on the bottom right screen, it might not matter who they're hunting.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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