Quote:A quick comment while I'm going over this page the next morning. The following is something one of my prereaders suggested. I'm not sure I'm going to follow this line of reasoning in the story -- it's not necessary for what remains of the plot -- but it's certainly a great idea. As many of you may well know, in June 2000 it was confirmed by one of the high-ups in Animeigo that both Sylia and Mackie have boomer brain augmentation (see this posting at Google Groups). What if kindly ol' Doc Stingray programmed his daughter for revenge, using that circuitry and the data cartridge that dumped so much other stuff into her 10-year-old brain? What if she isn't allowed to question her crusade?
Sylia is utterly convinced that she's Right, Doug's Wrong and no man, meta or god is going to stand between her and her conclusions. For somebody as ostensibly rational as Sylia, that's one hell of a blind spot.
And will whatever Doug does to free the boomers work on her?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.