KUIPER BELT—OGDEN ENTERPRISES“Any side effects?” Daphne asked Dale a week later in the office she shared with Kimberly and Fredricks. For the entire seven days, she had made sure that either she or Kimberly was within sight of Dale all the time. If anything went wrong, she wanted to nip it in the bud and reestablish Dale without the implant.
“Nothing that I can detect,” Dale said. “I have tried everything I can think of to break the implant, but it keeps on running—like the Energizer Bunny.”
“The what?”
“I was researching some material from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I came across this strange television ad.”
Daphne tossed her head and looked at him curiously.
“Television—what they had before holovision, basically a flat-screen image display in full color. Anyway, some
