“Sit down, and let’s chat,” Thorpe told the couple and their uploads.
Sally and Brad sat on a settee in the office lounge area, joined by their upload holoimages, and Thorpe took an easy chair opposite them.
“As I have come to expect ever since I hired you from the School of Mines way back when, you guys have performed way beyond expectations. You know I hold you in the highest regard.”
Sally blushed, and Brad grinned crookedly. Their uploads responded in virtually the same manner.
“Once you two,” Thorpe indicated the uploads, “get inside their system, you will be tempted to explore. I am giving you a direct order, and I don’t do that very often.” Thorpe smiled at the uploads and then at their flesh-and-blood counterparts. “Your only job is to decode their file structure and translate
