Chapter Six
LOS ANGELES—THE MATRIX
One part of Thorpe’s mind replayed over and over Daphne’s and Kimberly’s lovemaking. It definitely affected him, but he was only too aware that in his present existence, that kind of activity was restricted to vicarious participation. It’s like a picture of wildflowers, he thought. It simply doesn’t compare with the real thing. With an inward sigh of regret, he turned the bulk of his attention to finding the entity.
Thorpe’s first order of business was to gain complete mastery over the GlobalNet. To do this, he created dozens of tensors, each sufficiently complex to investigate and report back to him, but containing no more complexity than he thought necessary to do the task. He wanted to ensure that, should the entity capture one of his tensors and an
