Chapter twenty-eight: a long time ago

"Now that we are very alone I have a question for all of you. Who is the other person Hector and Mary were talking with? A tech leader? Government leader? A reality tv star?"

"That's funny Tim," said One. "Reality tv star. Hilarious. As if they would lead a country or in this case the world."

"Ok maybe not reality tv stars. That is far fetched. But it is someone who just may be in charge of Hector and Mary. The leader of the leaders. I wonder if there is a way we can pick their brains on it, or catch them somehow. If we find it out we may be able to understand what is really going on. I sure hope we are on the good side." Tim turned to AJ. "You've been quiet through this conversation."

"Sorry...what?"

"What are you thinking about?" asked One.

"Sorry guys. I was listening to the others. They are wondering what is going on. They are worried. They want to help. A lot of voices. They are all trying to get my attention. I need to find a reason to be in front of them. I think they can help us. But we need to make sure they can't leak out anything so we have to be careful what we tell them. Let's try and figure out how Hector will put us all together.

"Well if we say we are ready for the next project and we want to do it with the team we may be able to get in front of them. Just a thought."

"That is a good thought One," said Kal. "I know them of course. I helped each get settled in. Leave it with me. I'll make it happen. This time AJ you'll be using your source. This should be amazing. Amazing! Or terribly bad! Horribly terribly awfully bad! I'm going to stick with amazing. This WILL be AMAZING! Oh yeah. I like that better."

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