Chapter 39
Orlando Pike’s Shuttle
Millions of kilometers away from Olinda and still Pike’s nanoweb memory scan continued feeding on my past. On the control deck, I had located command subroutines in the system responsible for sending the collected data back to Pike.
I thought about deleting the routines. Now that I considered it, I willed my hand to move out and eliminate the offending technology. Nothing happened. Just like down on Olinda, facing Pike right before he kissed me. While he kissed me.
I didn’t feel any compulsion, no outside force grabbed my hand and prevented it from moving. My muscles didn’t shake, I didn’t break into a sweat trying to overcome his control.
Simply nothing happened. My hand stayed peacefully on the arm of the chair. Around me, the largely empty control
