One Big Mother of a Crystal 4-10 May
"You think I don't know the rules?" Kink pretended to be outraged. "You think I'm just traipsing around with this man for the fun of it? We're in crisis and you think know about gallivanting about. Me! A lieutenant! The nerve! Give me your badge numbers!"
"I'm sorry, lieutenant. We didn't mean anyth..." They began, but Kink cut them off.
"I don’t want to hear any of it! Now get out of here before I write you all up for disciplinary action! There are criminals on the loose and you have the audacity to stand around wasting my time! I am a lieutenant in this service! And who are you? A bunch of nobodies! I can't believe you're standing here delaying me when we have lunatics running around the facility causing havoc! You should be out there doing your job, not up here stopping me from doing mine!"
"Yes, Lieutenant, " they replied. "Sorry, lieutenant. It's only. .."
"Only what?" she snapped.
"Nothing, Lieutenant. " And they slowly backed away.
Kink began to lead me forward. "How was that?" She asked when we were a little bit away. "Impressive, right?"
"You yelled at people until they backed away," I said.
"I used my cover to get where we want to get without any fear of being watched," she restated. "I think that's pretty impressive."
"Good. Then you can be impressed and I can move along and get the job done."
We walked inside the timeline server room. It was just an empty room with a massive crystal in the middle of it. There were several little machines racing around its surface. "This is it?" I asked. "One crystal?"
"A crystal one tenth that size could hold more than 800 yottabytes of data. Something that big I could only imagine how much data it could contain. All of known history presumably and maybe some of the unknown."
"That's... a lot of data.”
to be continued here next week
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