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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Unbound
Dyna sniffed. Feeling an unpleasant sensation running down the back of her throat, she quickly ran to the sink. After spitting, she grabbed a tissue and blew her nose as much as she could. “My nose is bleeding again.” “Quite frankly, Miss Graves, you should consider yourself lucky if that is the worst you’re experiencing.” Glancing back over her shoulder, Dyna met the mirrored lenses of Walter as he stood back near the door to her temporary accommodations. Over the past three days, she…-
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Class Canceled
“Mel? Are you awake yet?” Dyna asked, tapping her knuckles against her roommate’s door. The clock had just ticked past noon and Melanie’s shoes were still on the rack next to the door. Dyna had been excused from lectures thanks to her morning MRI and CT scans—both of which came back with no obvious anomalies—but for Mel to skip classes likely meant that she had gone out drinking last night. Carroll wasn’t a regular school; everyone in attendance was being paid to be here. If people skipped…-
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Continuity Engine
“Shut it down. Shut it all down. Not the Continuity Engine!” Lights dimmed. Vats of suspended brains stopped their bubbling. Terminals winked off. One by one, the equipment in the large room stopped moving. All except the large machine that looked like three turbine engines arrayed around a grated fan set into the floor. Arcs of electricity danced between tall metal poles. Coils of wire hummed in a gentle vibration around the large rotors. “Mister Maple, proceed with relocation checklist.…-
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Hypnosis
Harold, currently seated in the back of his car, unnerved Dyna. He wasn’t doing anything. He wasn’t struggling with his zip ties or trying to twist his arms out from behind his back. He just sat there, staring through his small round glasses. Every time Dyna glanced up into the rear-view mirror, she met his eyes. It made her feel guilty. Dyna couldn’t quite explain why. He was the bad guy here. She had even texted Emerald about her plan to take this guy to the arcade and had gotten approval in the…-
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Kidnapped
Dyna didn’t know where she was being taken. The door was locked. The driver was obviously being controlled somehow. She had thought it seemed strange when, despite matching the description of someone involved in a potential shooting, he hadn’t frisked her and arrested her. In retrospect, that should have been a huge red flag. It was so clear now, but a few minutes ago, she had been far, far more concerned with the fact that Harold had gotten away and her memories of how were fuzzy at best. Now, she…-
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Tick-Tock
“What’s taking them so long? The city is tiny. You can get anywhere in ten minutes or less.” “Easy,” Ruby said. “They probably want that guy to get us.” “They want to recruit me.” “Then they’re cowards.” “Maybe,” Dyna said. They hadn’t exactly felt like cowards over the phone, even explaining several things about the Hatman without too much prompting. They had even asked where he was the first time around, presumably with the intention of going after him. So when…-
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Help
Dyna sat as still as she could. Only her eyes and her knee moved, both with a nervous tension. Her eyes darted back and forth between the little girl with red hair and the woman roughly her age with green hair. The older woman was on her phone, talking quietly in the far corner of the room. She kept her other hand locked onto a small silver pocket watch. Her thumb hovered just above the winding stem. The little girl concerned Dyna just a little more than the older one. After all, it was the little girl…-
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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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Not a Crazed Gunman
Three things happened in rapid succession following Dyna firing her pistol. The first was the most obvious effect. Having aimed outside the Thai restaurant, the glass window shattered. Dyna had aimed up at the diner’s signboard. She figured that was the safest place to put a bullet. Too high and it would fly off into the night, potentially hitting someone unintentional far off in the distance. Too low and she could hit a customer over at the restaurant. Even lower than that, and the bullet could…-
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