Todays #WIP progress is yielding some fun stuff: Rachel turns to Mark. “You led her right here. What were you thinking?” Mark’s face warms, he shrugs. “I was thinking she might prove useful.” “You weren’t using the head on your shoulders.” Rachel’s seethes through every word. “Now we have to search everything she’s touched.” Mark closes his eyes and reaches in his bag. Within a few minutes he pulls out the full list of equipment she brought him for his new identity. “She and her so-called father were the ones who created my new ident.” “Jack, scan the equipment and fill us in on what we’re facing.” After a few moments of silence Jack responds to the request. “All items are what they appear to be. Each one will function effectively as intended. Only the hand coverings appear to have an inactive tracer attached.” Mark grumbles, “Of course it had to be the gloves. Do you know how hard it is to work without the gloves?” Rachel extended her hand with a smirk on her face. “Give ‘em. I’ll take care of it.” He drops the electronic bands that make up the base of the hand protectors into Rachel’s hand. “I’ll check out my new ident while you work on those.” She takes the bands and places them near her work area. Within a few moments she is able to track the embedded tracer. Removing it proves more daunting than she prefers. “Just so you know, Mark, this isn’t going to be without the tracer. If you need these like you say you do, the tracer needs to be disabled, but not removed. If I try to remove it, it’ll disable to entire program.” “Great,” he says flatly. “Leave it to me to be sucked in by a set of pretty eyes.” Rachel laughs. “You know she’s sharing a room with you right?” “I guessed. Was looking forward to it at first.” “What’s your new ident?” Rachel works to disable the communication center on the tracer. “Norm McDonnell. He’s ah…what?” Mark shakes his head. “They made me ..gah! How do they expect that I’m going to pull that one off?” Rachel can’t help laughing at his exaggerated expressions. “What did they list you as?” “An Earth spiritual sage.” Mark runs his hand down the length of his face. “Do I strike you as the kind of ‘all things are peaceful’ person?” “Nope. This will be fun.”
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:18:28 +0000