Wednesday, March 09, 2005

38. cherchez la femme

Everything rested on Landau's shoulders. It had been too easy until now. The resigned nutritionist had run to Wind Co. offering himself to go to the tacky-named colony, the only one Wind had got - and enjoying full acceptance of his proposal. It wasn't really hard to see where the contaminated VeriSim came from. There were too many questions welling up out of that discovery.
The holder of the main VeriSim patent was Sidero VVA. How could insignificant Wind had given such technologic leap by leaning onto other people's technology? With own Sidero's help, of course... Both, Wind e Sidero, had sewn up some kind of arrangement in order to defeat Torrid Inc.
So Landau figured out a plan that could never have come from M&M's mind, even if she was completely cured.
Perhaps the mysterious kingmaker under Wind's illicit dealings - like unblocking of security and vigilance devices - could be M&M's mentor.That made sense. Through his or her help, M&M had faken her own death, then had zombied back through one of the many ways available. While "dead", M&M could handle Torrid's disintegration plan with no attention over herself.
He had to find her and find out who was she with.
But where could M&M be? She could have assumed any form. She could be in a data bank, in a cryolab or inside a hollow molar...

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