Page 29 of Tyton: The Spider and the Dragonfly
“Oh!Yeah, of course.”Obviously, she wouldn’t want to get her bed covered in filth from the access tunnels.And Charger blood.Sesi wasn’t usually this dense.
“Thanks for bringing me home.”Callie stood near the bathroom door awkwardly.Even though you kidnapped me,she thought.
Sesi realised a second too late that Callie was waiting for her to leave.What the fuck was wrong with her today?She inhaled sharply to clear her head.“I’ll send someone over tomorrow to take care of that ankle so you don’t have to pay for a DocPod.”
“Thanks.”Callie was about to bite her fingernails but they were covered in a variety of unknown and unpleasant substances.She picked at them instead.
“And I’ll be able to answer more of your questions once you get the info on Lumijute.”
Callie nodded.Her eyes never left Sesi.Fear?Or something else?Sesi had the urge to kiss her goodbye, but she was coated in filth and also, the whole kidnapping thing.This was getting weird.
Sesi turned to leave, but had the gnawing feeling that she had left something incomplete.
The Devil
January 3 2268
PRIMARY: TELL ME ABOUT LUMIJUTE
MODEL 21: LUMIJUTE IS A TRADEMARK NAME OWNED BY NOVAITEC
PRIMARY: WHAT IS IT A TRADEMARK FOR?
MODEL 21: GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORCHORUS OLITORIUS
PRIMARY: HOW HAS IT BEEN MODIFIED?
MODEL 21: ENCODING FOR PLANTAE ADAPTED PROKAREOTES
Callie bit at her bottom lip.She was no biologist, but those were two separate kingdoms as far as her bio courses were concerned.She should just get a printout and be done with it.She would hand the files to Sesi and then move on with her life.Sesi would smile with that curl in her generous top lip and tell her she had done a good job.Her heart fluttered.Christ, Callie.
Callie glanced at the clock on the terminal.Her shift wouldn’t be over for another six hours.She told herself she didn’twantto do a good job for Sesi.She was just bored.
PRIMARY: WHAT PROKAREOTES DID YOU PUT IN PLANTS?
MODEL 21: PRODUCT S.O.2.27-EXPERIMENTAL_AA_PLANTAE
PRIMARY: WHAT IS PRODUCT S.O.2.27?
MODEL 21: RETROVIRAL ENCODING FOR PRODUCTION OF NOVEL ORGANELLE IN SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS.CF BLACK, MORGAN COLLOIDAL AURATOMIC SYNTHESIS 2078
Okay, Callie thought, inhaling deeply.That explained the prokaryotes.Kind of.But 2078 was before Tyton.A human had made it.Why had she never heard of it before?
PRIMARY: WHAT DOES PRODUCT S.O.2.27 DO?
MODEL 21: PRODUCT S.O.2.27 ENCODES FOR PRODUCTION OF AURATOMIC NANOIDS
PRIMARY: WHAT DO THOSE NANOIDS DO?
MODEL 21: S.O.2.27 AURATOMIC NANOID FUNCTION………
1.PRODUCE COLLAGEN BASED ECM (INDEPENDENT)
2.ELIMINATE PARASITES (INDEPENDENT)
3.INTERFACE CYBERWARE
4.EXECUTE CYBERWARE COMMANDS
