@catherine.chun

[arkproject]

Sooo... someone suggested I set up a security system wherever we decide on our new safehouse. I can definitely do surveillance, and encryption and retinal scanners and all that, but I can't say I've ever tried to secure something before.

Any volunteers to help me out? Prior security experience or breaking-and-entering experience both apply.

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[arkproject]

I'll be trying to learn their version of neural interfaces and cybernetic anatomical structures on the side, so that should keep me busy.

Yeah... we do. [ She knows what he means. Catherine doesn't care about being oblique, though -- she just doesn't want to talk about it too directly right now, for the sake of her own repressed feelings. ] Welcome to a better future?

[theseuschip]

Yeah. Oh, hey, I read something about virtual reality. Sounded like they have what you do.

[ He thinks this will be new and exciting information.

ur doing great sweetie. ]

[arkproject]

Yeah, I showed up at some kind of gaming convention. It was the first thing I noticed, but they wouldn't let me poke around in it.

Maybe once I build your arm, I'll look into it more.

[theseuschip]

Wait, wait, I woke up in an alley and walked out into Oktoberfest. You got a gaming convention? What gives?

[arkproject]

I don't know, our mysterious benefactors like me more?

[theseuschip]

[ what Catherine probably means as a joke Simon would accept as a given, were it not for the weird caveat. It’s not self-deprecation; he’s never felt threatened by her, or invalidated about the Simon things that he spent his life doing. Or unlikeable, for that matter.

but like

come on. ]

Considering their track record with A.I., I don’t know why they’d like either of us.