Nezumi peered at her monitor as if something on it had just said something vaguely insulting about her daughter*. "Buckaroo?"
There was a pause of about ten seconds. I stopped checking the project reports from Fenris and looked over at Nezumi. Buckaroo never pauses when we ask for
him. It never happens. Something was going on.
"Yes, Nez? What's up?"
"You tell me, Chief. Things seem a little sluggish. You, in particular."
"Oh, nothing to worry about. Just a little distracted, that's all."
"Buckaroo," Nezumi said, "you've got approximately five teraflops of processing power at any one time, given your network. What's
slowing you down?"
Another pause. This was a bit worrying.
"A couple of folks down on Earth are being a little rude, that's all. They're trying to hack the Institute...."
"Is that all?" I asked. "They've tried that before. Is it the RIAA again? Silly deadboys don't know when to quit."
What I thought was an end to his sentence turned out to be another pause, when Buckaroo continued, "..., Kandor, Stellvia, the Jason, aaaaaand probably
most of the Fenspace. Blackstone, I'm going to take the project database offline for a bit. Lebia needs to borrow the resources."
I watched as the database closed out and the computer locked itself. "Nezumi?"
Nezumi was watching some process diagnostics play out on her system, entranced. "Yeah?"
"Does this scare you as much as it does me?"
"Don't talk to me, Blackstone. I'm terrified beyond the point of rational thought."
* It is a not-quite secret that Nezumi has little love for her parents, but pours a great deal of affection on her only child, a precocious child named
Allegra.
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
There was a pause of about ten seconds. I stopped checking the project reports from Fenris and looked over at Nezumi. Buckaroo never pauses when we ask for
him. It never happens. Something was going on.
"Yes, Nez? What's up?"
"You tell me, Chief. Things seem a little sluggish. You, in particular."
"Oh, nothing to worry about. Just a little distracted, that's all."
"Buckaroo," Nezumi said, "you've got approximately five teraflops of processing power at any one time, given your network. What's
slowing you down?"
Another pause. This was a bit worrying.
"A couple of folks down on Earth are being a little rude, that's all. They're trying to hack the Institute...."
"Is that all?" I asked. "They've tried that before. Is it the RIAA again? Silly deadboys don't know when to quit."
What I thought was an end to his sentence turned out to be another pause, when Buckaroo continued, "..., Kandor, Stellvia, the Jason, aaaaaand probably
most of the Fenspace. Blackstone, I'm going to take the project database offline for a bit. Lebia needs to borrow the resources."
I watched as the database closed out and the computer locked itself. "Nezumi?"
Nezumi was watching some process diagnostics play out on her system, entranced. "Yeah?"
"Does this scare you as much as it does me?"
"Don't talk to me, Blackstone. I'm terrified beyond the point of rational thought."
* It is a not-quite secret that Nezumi has little love for her parents, but pours a great deal of affection on her only child, a precocious child named
Allegra.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."