Destiny: the Girl in the Box #9
“I caught myself still thinking of it as the Directorate, even though it hadn’t been that for months. I wondered if I’d ever think of it as the Agency, or ever really consciously think of it as a place I helped run rather than being a place where I had grown up in so many ways.
The midday sun was shedding its light overhead. I was sweating under my suit jacket. I’d kept it on because I had a meeting in an hour or so, but I wanted to try this again first. I closed my eyes and ignored the brig...ht sun shining through my eyelids. I tried not to notice the scent of the pine needles that were clinging to the knees of my pants, but they were pungent. Far more so than a car air freshener.
In a moment I was transported into the darkness in my head. My own personal Stonehenge of metal boxes surrounded me, looming ominously in the darkness. I didn’t move this time, just stood there and unlocked every single one of them with my mind. I opened the doors, and they squealed their hinges.MoreLess
The midday sun was shedding its light overhead. I was sweating under my suit jacket. I’d kept it on because I had a meeting in an hour or so, but I wanted to try this again first. I closed my eyes and ignored the brig...ht sun shining through my eyelids. I tried not to notice the scent of the pine needles that were clinging to the knees of my pants, but they were pungent. Far more so than a car air freshener.
In a moment I was transported into the darkness in my head. My own personal Stonehenge of metal boxes surrounded me, looming ominously in the darkness. I didn’t move this time, just stood there and unlocked every single one of them with my mind. I opened the doors, and they squealed their hinges.MoreLess
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