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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Altering the Plan
“You’re ruining my mission,” Ruby said with quite possibly the most terrifying pout that Dyna had ever seen. Pitrelli’s office didn’t feel like the most secure location to discuss possible traitors to the Carroll Institute. It had no door, a large window, security cameras galore, and more photographs of mountains and rivers. The latter fact didn’t weaken the security of the situation, but did strengthen the theory that the decor in Harold’s office had come from the institute rather than…-
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Of Doubts and Traitors
Dyna moved through the halls of Psychodynamics. The wood and brass walls and the marble tiles had a warm feeling to them. Not the cold, clinical decor of a research laboratory. She had to wonder if it was supposed to be comforting to the people walking through. Psychodynamics, and the Carroll Institute as a whole, delved heavily into the mind. Not just in terms of psychic abilities, but in mental health and psychology as well. They would know better than anyone how to decorate their buildings to achieve a…-
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Plotting
“What the bleep are we doing out here?” Ruby said, rubbing her gloved hands together in the cold air. She wore a thick coat, one quite a bit too big for her. The lower edge hung down around her knees, making it look more like some kind of coat-dress. It looked a whole lot warmer than Dyna’s coat. Before moving to Idaho, she never owned anything heavier than a light jacket. It just didn’t get that cold in Los Angeles. Now? Here in Idaho’s November? She had gone out and purchased a much thicker…-
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Protection
Dyna set her phone down on the small table of her dormitory living room. There were… a lot more kidnappings around the Los Angeles area than she had thought there would be. Information wasn’t easy to come by either. Dyna expected to need little more than a simple search to pull up a list of all kidnappings in the county. She hadn’t been able to find anything like that. Instead, she had found a list of statistics. Having lived there, she never would have suspected that ninety thousand children…-
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Sanctuary
“Deeper… and deeper. Let your body and your mind calm. The tension in your shoulders, in your arms, in your chest… just let it all go and step to the third… step… now. Relax.” Sensory deprivation chambers always felt strange. They were small cylinders. More like metal coffins than actual chambers. Half-filled with water, the occupant was intended to relax and float on top, removing most sensations of gravity and the upward force of the ground or chairs or beds. With the water and air both…-
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Investigation
Emerald sniffed at the chill air biting her nostrils. Idaho Falls normally had a nature smell to it. Farmland, the Snake River, and the generally undeveloped area all gave it a natural scent. Without a large population and with the rising popularity of electronic vehicles—as slow as the people here were to adopt new technology—exhaust smog was effectively nonexistent. At the moment, however, Emerald didn’t smell much. Cold air had a way of deadening the senses. The natural senses, anyway.…-
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Your Mind
Dyna wasn’t sure what she expected from her mirror. An answer, she supposed. One way or another, she thought she would get some kind of answer. Instead, she simply got her own reflection. A perfectly normal girl stared back in the perfectly normal compact mirror. It didn’t even turn dark this time. Did that mean anything? The absence of a change to the mirror didn’t prove that it couldn’t change, only that this specific situation wasn’t enough to trigger it. Walking up to the left cell, the…-
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Retrospective
Dyna watched over Doctor Cross’ shoulder, not at all sure what she was looking at. A machine of some kind. The main body had three parts, all made from shiny silvery metal. A spherical chamber with several jutting canisters, a cylinder lit by a dozen bright green lasers shining into it, and a long narrow pipe connecting the two parts together. Cables, pipes, tubes, wires, and all manner of other dangling parts hung off the machine from nearly every point. Dyna wasn’t sure what the day’s tests…-
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History
“Sapphire,” Ruby snarled. “What are you doing here?” Dyna took a deep breath, beyond glad that Ruby was at her side. She patted at her chest, trying to get her heart to calm back down. Spooky movies, even ones she had seen before, always set her on edge. A good kind of edge, she often thought. They got her heart racing and her blood pumping. But the figure appearing out of nowhere while walking down otherwise vacant hallways of Psychodynamics caused more than just a small shock. If it had…-
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A Day Off
“Alright, Miss Graves. You may remove the apparatus.” Dyna straightened her back, gripping the handles built into the armrest of the chair to help pull herself forward. She reached up, undid a small buckle set under her chin, and slowly lifted a complex series of interlocking metal plates off her head. Cables and wires ran up into the ceiling. Most were for data transfer, but a few were connected to winches and counterbalance weights, causing the helmet to practically levitate away from her with…-
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