Full Circle

This is officially the best week ever until something more amazing happens.

First great thing about this week : Promotions.

Paid.

I constantly have said that some of the best places to gather intel and learn what's going on out there in the streets of Midian is to be at the center of it all....the medical center that is. Police officers, gangsters, why even the good Mayor Silua of Midian have paid a visit to this fine run down establishment with high end equipment. The other end of the spectrum is of course Ashagi Laboratory, where for the right price, we'll undo almost anything and everything God can throw at ya.

Life suck and you want to erase those bad memories?

No problem

Lost all your limbs in a bomb accident?

We'll grow them back for ya!

Need a body double?

We can do ya one better, sir! We'll grow ya a freakin' clone!

My new professional look!

I am now one of the Administrators at the hospital, overseeing applicants and job placement within the facility in addition to managing the medical files of the Midian City Medical Center's patients. I also got promoted to Head Researcher at Ashagi in a most unexpected way. Adagio, oddly enough predicted my promotion well before I could put two together.

...chick seems to know a lot, don't she?

Notice, she's never once predicted something beneficial.

Only things meant to be moments before they happen.

My first order of business was heading out the lab's face lift. With Aylin gone, Lithia was made CEO and Dr. Parkin her Director. The new lab is more "friendly," perfect for PR tours of the facility while masking its darker sides. The ASF now has a more equipped office for themselves, no longer sharing that space with the employee lounge. The contractors were a bit on the lazy side with work, but damn did they produce results fast. I predict that this new facility will become much more fun and profitable to work in once it is done.

Basement Lab - Floor One

Basement Lab - Floor Two

Speaking of predictions, I learned my new wife's telepathic. And that she's had this ability for some time. Oh, and Brekka's apparently the one who opened her mind to it in the first place. Ya know, quiet former stitcher of the catwalkers turned Pack Brekka.
....and I'm not crazy.

Where the fuck did that come from?!

Speakin' into one's mind...like we don't hear her talking enough as it is!

I think you are missing the point. I'm still thoroughly confused by what it is Adagio's capable of with those powers but according to her, she does not use them often. It's mostly her superior sense of logic that defines how she can calculate and come to such conclusions so readily. I imagine those two separate brains of hers being enhanced by cybernetic components must speed up the process.

But she used them on us....

...to make sure we were telling the truth that night.

..on us....hello warning signs.

I know. It bothers me that she's able to invade a person's mind like that, but she assured me that such an invasion was never done to me until that night.

And you believe her ?

I'm not sure. I think I want to believe her, but she's able to pry into people's minds and whisper to them on a subconscious level. What's to say she hasn't been brainwashing me into thinking that, or into loving her more than reason allows? What if this is all just a result of her world domination plot?

She does say "I love you" a lot, like she feels the need to remind you.

You did marry a loyalist of the World Union too, the iron fist of the Earth.

Smart move by the way, hybrid.

That was a compliment, I think. Adagio's not all bad, even if she does seem to have a superiority complex some moments. I get the feeling her heart's in the right place, but her words remain cold and stabbing at times, like she's not capable of being subtle....at all.

Yeah. despite her repetitive speech, torturing exercise regiments, and

constant reminding of the fact that we're fatter than her,

 chick does a mean massage

I agree completely.

She does way more than that also but whatever. At least for now, this week is about spending time together before I leave for Japan. I have a lot of officials to kiss ass to if I intend to secure and keep this executive job. A hybrid, much less a hybrid with minimal experience, no formal education, and to top it all off, a former experiment of the very company she was now charged with heading research projects for did not boat well in the eyes of the rest of the board trustees. If anything it spit in their faces that things of the past could and usually do come back to haunt them.

At least Dr. Parkin had her genetic genius under her belt. Despite her age, the women's a walking encyclopedia on the greats and horrors of genetic manipulation. I got nothing really except a few small products and briefcase sampling of custom drugs I'd previously started selling on the black market. I have a feeling that is more the reason they wish to talk to me. Ya don't fly someone out to a foreign company for a background check after all. If you seriously wish to meet them for something like that, there has got to be more to it.

Those corporate snobs know about your entire life story though.

Exactly what's stopping them from stripping you and dropping you back in that cold cell again?

Nothing and no one at all.

Ah. Fun...