I am, very much, a night person.
*
Simon Peters is insatiably drawn to water. He finds it, and he drinks it, and he can’t be stopped.
So when he was kidnapped–(naked, cold, afraid; defiant, jutified)–he fell back on the things that comforted him. He would stand at the sink, washing dishes or just running water over his hands, for hours if they let him. There was an eerie serenity around him.
It made his captors nervous.
A. Some became rough.
B. Some became kind.
C. Some became respectful.
But all of them changed their actions when they came across him.
He could electrify a room with his presence.
*
At his recommendation, thouands of people began reading “Idlewile”, the fictional telling of a cataclysmic rise to stardom on the back of a benevolently controlling government. It was a bestseller.
Brent read the book at Simon’s insistence and was blown away. He was talking about it for weeks. And one of the people he happened to talk to was a little inventor named Professor Raymond Zebronski.
Nobody knew what the Zebronski Protocal was, but they knew that it meant he wasn’t allowed to handle his own human experimentation. All of his research had to be run through CyberAngel Industries’ Legal Office. [CAILO]. Though he was angry about it, he quickly found that they gave excellent results.
Z
Hermes Andreas was the CAILO liason to the lab and quickly earned the moniker “Ianto” from the pop-culture minded employees. (Florentine in management and Rickets in accounts receivable. It was basically just them. But oh my god, he wore sweater vests and three-piece suits and he had that accent [speech-impediment. He’d fallen off a bike when he was a kid. His parents couldn’t afford to get it fixed. He compensated adequately.] Rickets just couldn’t resist.
Florentine had grown used to being dragged about willy-nilly. She’d do so much more for her best-friend… plus they had a lot of fun. She enjoyed using her wit to get them through their various hijinks intact. She met so many different kinds of people, experiencing a culture she never would have known.) And he took it in stride.
He was Hermes Andreas. He was a professional.
Z
