23 Heavy Breathing (1/2)

”Apparently, it takes 3 minutes of eye contact to fall in love with a stranger.”

- Megacles

”That's why pornstars always look into the camera.”

- Candy

”Wait!Don't all of your hypnotriggers take 3 minutes?”

- Megacles

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1 Day Later

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I pull into Candy's Club, and head to her office.Candy and Lodestone are sitting on her couch.

”All right.” I say.”Show me what you got.”

They stand and start to strip.

”That is not what I meant.” I say.”Actually, fuck it, let's get this out of the way.”

I spend some heavy breathing time with my best girl and her psycho hypno twin.

”Okay!” I wave a sticky finger.”Now show me how to find Doc-Danger.”

”I got nothing.” says Lodestone.

”That's disappointing.” I say.

”I perceive humans as a subset of strategies.A list of reactions to various stimuli.That's all the detail I require to predict their actions.Usually.It's not working on Doc-Danger.Fucker's got some weird ideas.” says Lodestone.”I found his lab, but it had been sterilized.Some kind of contingency plan.Probably a dead man's switch.I hacked the National Spying Agency to get his Everything-He's-Done-Online-Ever file, but he didn't have one.I didn't know that was possible.Makes you wonder.”

”Yeah, he's a keeper.” I say.I pull up the impossible answers.”Take a look at these.”

”This is… holy shit.” says Lodestone.

”See anything about teleporting?” I ask.

”Un-fucking-believable.” Lodestone says.She's quiet for a bit.”This is astounding, but it's very low level science.Foundation.Building blocks.I think…he took this data and made another set of impossible questions.Then he got answers for those questions.”

”Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.”I say.