Ch 28 - The Mindlink

SPECTRA

I stood there dumbfounded, staring at her. She looked at me with her eyes widened like she'd just seen a ghost.

“Spectra?” Smoke pestered, wearing a curious look on her face.

“Oh, it's um, it's just a talk show I'm listening to,” I managed to say. She didn't look like she believed a word I said.

“Hello? Eva Marcel on tonight's show?” I spluttered, turning my ears to reveal an earpiece situated in my ear. Nothing was playing in it, but I hoped she would buy it.

She looked disbelievingly at me for a second, and then she took the earpod from me and put it in her ears. I closed my eyes tight because I knew any moment from now she'd uncover the lie to its very root. But when I opened it, she was listening to something. I tapped the other piece on my left ear and crazily enough, an actual talk show was going on.

It took me only a second to recognize the voice speaking. It was Eva, my machine assistant. It had split its voice to sound like three distinct speakers and it seemed lik