Myth Gods Tech - Omnibus Edition: Science Fiction Meets Greek Mythology In The God Complex Universe by George Saoulidis Page A

holding my phone in reverse
camera mode to turn it into an expensive complicated
mirror.
    “ You always look great,” Billy said, and then bit his
tongue.
    I got
out the van, from the normal door this time and went around to the
passenger seat. Billy sat on the wheel and asked, “So, where
to?”
    I
checked my watch. “Take me where you first kissed me,” I said, and
got a raised eyebrow from Deppy.

Purple
time
     
    She came
out the concrete floor again, digging her way through. I was ready,
I ran between the stacks of barrels and avoided her
lunge.
    As she followed, her nails scraped the barrels and threw out
purple sparks. I knew that after, nothing would be there but if I’d
let those sparks touch me I would hurt a lot.
    I reached the end of the row and stopped, turning myself and
standing on the spot.
    Maybe I could just let her end this. Maybe that’s what it
was, to end my life gasping for air, just like my little brother
had died when we were little. When I was supposed to take care of
him, when I was old enough to be left in charge of him. When I let
him die in the flood.
    The Erinyes came closer, but slowed down, even in her dreamy
movement, and looked me in the eyes. Hers were gleaming. It was as
if she knew what I was thinking, what I was feeling. Guilt. Guilt
over my brother’s death.
    Guilt because I was too vain, staring at my reflection in the
mirror, to see that he had gone out for his bicycle.
    The Erinyes came to my face, a mere centimetre away, smiling.
I kept my eyes open and gulped. Maybe I deserved this. Maybe I
should experience getting choked to death, a fate, I presumed,
similar to drowning in water.
    The Erinyes hair spread out and leaned closer to envelop me.
I couldn’t bare it, I shut my eyes. One second, two seconds. Three
seconds, I bolted out of there, ran like the wind, ran like my life
depended on it.

Chapter
39
     
    “ Well, this
was interesting,” Deppy said deeply, in contrast to her normal
cheerful tone.
    “ Trade ya any time,” I said.
    “ Nooo,” Deppy replied, expanding the ‘oo’ into a deep forced
laugh.
    “ Okay Scooby gang, we have a van, we have a nerd, we don’t
have a dog. What’s stopping us? Let’s plan this thing through,” I
said in a coach tone of voice.
    “ You want to go through with Prodromos’ plan,” Billy said
matter-of-factly.
    I opened
my palm towards Deppy. “Yes, as she said, everything Prodromos came
up with is sound and factual. His own interpretation is the only
thing that’s wobbly.”
    “ Well,” Deppy said showing us some schematics in the van’s
monitors, “Here are the plans she wanted to use to get in. All she
needed was an original access card to spoof the system, which we
have now, and access to the R&D lab to download all the
research data and internal emails. Hopefully, the answers lie
there. They will require some digging afterwards.”
    “ Great,” I said slapping my hands. “What else do we
need?”
    “ I’ll need to go in to get the data from the computer,” Deppy
said hesitantly.
    “ No. I’m not putting you there, you’ve already done enough.
I’ll go, you talk me through it,” I said firmly.
    Deppy
sighed with relief. “In that case, I’ll set up a USB drive to it
all automatically. Should work fine.”
    “ Do that. Get it ready,” I said. “Billy, fill it up with gas,
I’ll owe you. OK, we go in tonight. “I’ll need to show up at the
police station for a follow up statement.” My head tilted down as I
was reminded of the dead woman.
    Billy
frowned. “That was reckless Mahi. What if those policemen had kept
you there for hours and your time was up? What would you do? Tell
them, ‘Sorry officer, I gotta run a few laps around the building
for a minute, cause I’m an Olympic athlete. Nevermind me looking
like hell, running for my life from an unseen predator. It’s all
good. Coming right up in two minutes, tops.’”
    I squinted at him and put a finger on his chest. “Sarcasm
is my