Jay sat on the Chico Inn balcony nursing a cup of coffee. It was almost 2200 hours but the darkness wasn’t really darkness for him; he could still see the mountains and the houses below. Through his enhanced vision, their brightly colored rooftops shone in peculiar shades of grayscale.
He heard footsteps ascending the stairs. They creaked out onto the balcony.
‘Hey,’ Damien said.
‘I know what you’re trying to do,’ Jay said.
Damien slinked into view and took a seat nearby. ‘I’m on the team,’ he said. ‘The retrieval of that German scientist.’
Jay was sure he’d misheard. ‘What?’
‘I put myself on the team.’
Jay rolled his eyes. ‘You mean Grace asked you to jump and you said how high?’
Damien was staring out into what would be darkness for him. ‘She didn’t ask me,’ he said. ‘I wanted to
