19Meara took off her infrared and put it back in her pocket.
Then she started scanning. She managed to link to about twenty. “Ha! I got half of the buggers.”
Will didn’t answer. He was staring too hard to reply. He needed to learn why neural connections were so easy for Meara and so hard for him. It took him a bit, but he finally he got nine of them to stand up and activate their weapons. He first had them destroy the ones in standby, then he went for the ones trying to decide what next steps to take. In the process though, the AIs he was controlling accidentally took out two of Meara’s dancers.
“No fair,” she said, smacking his arm. “Ya get no points for that shitty move.”
Will’s nearly lost his neural connection to them when he turned to react to Meara’s critique. “What channel are y
