Chapter 9
I had
noticed that since then Ben hadn't asked as many questions as he used
to. This perturbed me, for I couldn't help but wonder what he was
thinking. What he was thinking about. I was afraid to find out,
being a bit happy that he wasn't quite so chatty. Still, I couldn't
really help but wonder. Perhaps he had learned whatever he felt he
needed to know, or maybe he figured that asking me questions bothered
me...
Or was it
the phonecall from that night? Had he heard enough of the call to
know that the 'slaves' were he and those like him? I prayed that it
wasn't the case, for if I was right than he might turn against me for
being a slave.
All this I
would find out in time. It was a few weeks after deployment and
there was a meeting to touch base, to report that all was well and
all that before being assigned a new task, maybe the creation of an
upgrade model or something entirely new - I would never find out.
Oddly
enough, somehow worth mentioning, Philip wasn't at this meeting.
Devon noted the absence for he was invited like at any of the other
meetings before this. Alas, we had to move on.
