Spy-script: 4693-400
It's just 10'11. I have just come back from level 253. Not much to say. I went there just casually strolling around in their cafeteria. I saw Dr Hannoh having his coffee break. I saw him as he walked up to the vending machine and he was actually buying something from it. That was odd. I never thought a Blondie would do that. Iason would've never allowed himself to sink that low… although he did hit the bottom of society at the end.
I watched his motions, his way of sipping on that coffee, the way he read each page of the 'Journal of Medical Science', and the way he scratched the bridge of his nose where the glasses have made a small furrow. He has yellowish eyes, not like Iason or Raoul. I guess he is a second class Blondie as some of the higher casts say. But he has a gentle face. In fact, gentle enough for me to feel almost sorry for having to sell him out to the cops. His long blond hair was arranged in a plaited ponytail resting against his shoulders and intertwined with leather straps that decorated and protected it. His long robe was as impressive as those Raoul uses every day. I am baffled how these Blondies manage to keep their gloves so white and spotless throughout the day. I watched as he finished his coffee, exactly in 28 minutes and then opened his office door 30 minutes after he left the office. Wow, punctual I'd say. I noticed his office is well guarded by two officers and well coded too. I don't even know how many digits he entered, but it sounded like MANY.
I returned to my office, and picked you out. You see my darling, Artemisia, I will have to use you to find a way into Dr Hannoh's computer. So, you'll have to be my accomplice in this. He can lock me out through his door, but not though the ether.
What should we call this little bug, my darling? Oh, I know…"NEWBORN"
BEGIN...
ℑchr ( 0 .. 191 ) ℑentity '#' . chr chr ℜchr; 167; 175 allow
Access CFCIntranet GENMOD, Cypher platform
ℑControl isolated entity /EXT 3769209-253
USERNAME ITHDr Hannoh
INFUSE
titleNEWBORN/title
LINK"TXT.FXTInvade" VLINK"℘35AA86" ALINK"℘;/℘Invade.fxt"
A FXTAPIX"#NEWBORN"newborn℘/a /
A FXTAPIX"#PLATFORMCYPHER"platformcypher℘r/a /
A FXTAPIX"#CYPHER.NIX"cipher.nix℘/a /
A FXTAPIX"#BUILDSHADOW"buildshadow℘/a
/h3
Create ghost identity APIXghostlevel6/APIX.
Linger: " ˃ Ä Ghostidentity 1-749; random order
ITERATEINVADER
A NAMENEWBORN
GHST.SRC"/shdowland/fxt/newborn.icp" GHT""
Newborn
GHST DORMANT"/ shdowland/fxt/newborn.icp" GHT""
INVTYPE INFUSE-∞
!INTRANET GENMOD "-/LJGO/INT VERSCANRES/KT"
ENGAGENOW
INVTYPE INFUSE-stop on command
!DOCTYPE INTRANET GENMOD "-/LJGO/INT VERSCANRES/KT"
ENGAGEwhen command given
I
BLOCKACCESS
SHDLGHST
DOCK .. APIX Dr Hannoh
/EXT 3769209-253
/I
/FIREWALLMagellan
TXV
LI
A FXTAPIX"/Newborn/VBAN/blockbusterMagellan"
FXTAPIX "full modules file
END ALL
Time to have a lunch break, Artemisia.
I met with Raoul during my lunch. He sat down in front of me, asking Gillian to leave us for a private conversation. I wish he hadn't. I was in no mood to discuss yesterday's little blunder. Yes, he did touch upon the subject.
"You have been avoiding me today," Raoul started and I agreed with a shrug. "I was hoping we could perhaps remain friends still." He continued, but then I couldn't stop form keeping the words inside.
"We have never been friends, Lord Am. You have always kept a distance to people like me. I can't remember a single time you actually spoke to me during my time with Iason."
"Why are you bringing up those times? I thought you had noticed I have changed too. I am speaking to you now and after all, it was me taking up contact with you. It was me asking you to come and work for me…"
"And it is you rejecting me now." I threw in and he just sighed.
"You have another lover. Isn't that enough for you, Katze?"
I felt like slapping his face; "Was one ever enough for you, Lord Am?"
He nodded, not because he answered 'yes' to that question, but because he acknowledged me hitting right on the spot. No, ONE has never been enough to satisfy Raoul. Not of anything. If he wanted us to keep a distance, then fine!
"Why are you sitting here, Lord Am? What is it that you want from me?"
Without a word he left his seat.
Everyone has left. I am alone in the office. I thought I would test run my script and see if I can get inside Dr Hannoh's computer. It's an easy script but I'll have to add to it as I go along.
The first part is done. I am inside the ethernet and isolated the entity of Dr Hannoh's computer. Ah, and there we have our first little obstacle. His security code to unlock his hard drive. I don't even know how many digits it is. Well, darling. I'll have to engage your device central CodeAccess to figure it out for me. I'll go and grab myself a cup of coffee. Be back in a while honey.
All right, let's see what you have for me.
"Argonaut74932TRXGGold"
Now this is the freakiest password I've seen in years. What the hell is an Argonaut? No time to think about that now.
I have been digging on his computer for about two hours now. I am tired and bored and I don't know if this is all worth the effort. Anyway, I think I have found some files regarding the patients he has treated during the past five years and that should mean most of the disposed pets found dead should be mentioned in all those registries. I shall send the whole bunch of data to X-breed and hopefully shut his mouth for a while.
I did find something else though. The same file that Raoul wanted me to collect when he had the meeting, but it had nothing to do with ABEL. It is a file called TrxG. I wonder what that is. It hasn't been updated since 388, which means at the weekend of that conference at Tashjian. It must have been something Raoul sent quite recently. I can't open it and you seem to choke on breaking the code to open it. It says corrupt file each time I try to access the folder and your virus scanner boots in, blocking your entire processor. I think I will have to go through Raoul's computer to try to open this one. It's also the same series of letters as in Dr Hannoh's password. What the heck is TrxG?
X-breed's letter: 4693-401
I didn't expect to receive an email so soon. It's only been a day. Damn the police are fast when needed. Where was their speed at other times when those poor Pets were left to rot? Why couldn't they track them down just as quickly?
No matter. Here is the letter X-breed sent me.
"Katze,
I want to congratulate you on your success and in retrieving the medical journals for several of the pets we have found discarded. The ones we suspect are still alive are under surveillance and we have put in extra effort to locate them and make sure they will not suffer the same fate. It is difficult, however, due to the fact that we do not want to raise suspicion as yet. For if the files are destroyed before we can find any connections to Raoul Am, I am afraid we will not be able to bring these dealers down. So far, we have the names and the connection to the Tanagura Medical Center, but not to Raoul Am.
We need more information.
Regarding your question of the other moles inside the medical center. I am sorry I cannot disclose such information. As you know it is just as much for their safety as yours. You shall remain unknown to each other until further notice.
Regards
X-breed"
By lunchtime, another note was left on my table saying I should contact Papa Downs. But something else is worrying me. Dr Hannoh, who has never been seen in our office just took a few very determined steps into Raoul's office. He looks quite pissed off. Time for me to delete the script honey and disconnect you from the ether.
Damn! Hannoh has been in Raoul's office for an hour now and by judging from the tone of voice seeping through the Ectobar glass wall, he is really, really angry. Oh, fuck! IT-personnel are up here. Deleting all traces of your address on the Ethernet and shutting you down. You were not here yesterday!!
I am so weak. I just got home. It's very late and the whole department has been taken apart. It's bout 22' right now and I am so high on adrenaline that I can't eat, drink, sleep or even breathe. My stomach is really upset. I was really careful but I guess security got a little tip from Jupiter that there was something disturbing the company grid. They took apart our computers. Personal laptops as well as stationeries owned by the company. They found nothing, but they knew the invasive ghost came form one of our own IP addresses. I was really nervous, but as always I pretended to be the fool and know nothing. I felt Raoul's stinging gaze on my neck the whole time my station was being scanned and my global history was analyzed. They even scanned my desk for projectable keyboards in case I was using a virtual computer instead a mechanical one. Those are most often used in the labs to avoid contamination of equipment. Keyboards are projected on any flat surface and the projector registers the keys pressed. It's an old technology but works better at high-level contamination units than these stationeries where radioactivity or electrostatic discharges can damage equipment. Well, they found nothing at my desk, but I saw that Raoul was not pleased. Sure enough, he called me into his office.
Dr Hannoh was there too. There was a nail-biting tension in the room and my heart was pounding violently in my chest. I was expecting to be showered with retribution for my indecorous behavior. Raoul seated himself across Dr Hannoh who was watching me with a burning gaze. His yellowish eyes were terrifying the way they flashed like something fiendish.
"Katze, as you know we have had a little problem. Someone has breached our security portals and tapped into Dr Hannoh's computer and copied some files."
"Oh?" I acted the fool and looked at the Blondie next to Raoul. He was so furious he could have struck me down at the slightest command. Raoul went on.
"How long were you here last night, Katze?"
Of course, they couldn't tell, for I had tampered with the registration of the code key. Everything that was in an electronic from was far from safe from being corrupt. I could lie and say whatever time I wanted, but I chose to tell the truth. I don't know why. It made more sense.
"I was here until sometime after ten."
I saw that Raoul was surprised I had given such an answer for it placed me in the line of the prime suspect.
"Really? Were you here with someone else?"
"No. I was alone ever since you left, Lord Am. No one else came or went."
"How come we couldn't register any time point on your card?"
For that I had to come up with a lie.
"I followed with the patrolling security. He came by just checking if everything was in order, so I decided to go with him. Am I under suspicion for something, Lord Am?"
He smiled with a stale complexion, but his eyes were ever so serious – frightful. "Of course not, my dear Katze."
Oh, he was such a terrible liar and that would be evident on our way home. I knew I had no chance of getting into Dr Hannoh's computer again in a long time. Security would be very high and they knew the perpetrator was someone from within, and everything was pointing at me.
Raoul caught up with me when I was on my way home. The elevator was empty when I stepped inside but a large hand smacked right against the doors as they were about to close. I jolted with fear as Raoul joined me and all of a sudden, an elevator made for over fifty people, seemed ever so crowded. Raoul's presence pushed me up against the wall and about half way down to the ground level, he pressed the stop key and the elevator halted; hovering on its magnetic rails about a thousand feet above ground.
Raoul grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the floor, nailing me to it.
"Now you listen to me, Katze. I don't know what the hell you are up to, but if you trespass again, I will make sure you will be destroyed. You know nothing of what suffering is like. I will rob you of everything you hold dear make sure your days will be nothing but endless pain."
Tears were falling from my eyes, not only from the fear, but the anger and the humiliation and the pain I already felt. It had hurt more than he could have imagined to be the traitor of someone who had trusted me as much as he did.
"All you need to do is to turn your back on me and you have achieved your goal." I managed to stutter.
For some reason he must have felt sorry for me. Raoul let me go and helped me to stand up. I couldn't speak, but I was really sad for him. I wanted to tell him what was going on, but I knew there was too much at stake. All those young Pets. Someone had to be held responsible… even if it was him.
"Was this the reason to why you had this stupid phone call with me the other day?"
Yes, it was, but only to a small extent. The real reason was that I desired him, but the same time I had to use my feelings to do the unthinkable. To betray him. Still, I reacted with such discontent that it even surprised me. He hit spot on, but I felt so humiliated. Perhaps because I didn't want it to be true and I defended myself as if I had been innocent.
"Is that what you think?! Do you really think that I would have stayed after all you said to me? You say that my feelings are like a rollercoaster, well you are impossible to figure out. Tell you what!"
I slammed my card key into his hands.
"I resign! I don't want to have anything to do with you from now on. I quit!"
"No you won't!" He shouted and threw the card back at me. "I'm not buying your self-pity, you little trash. I know that there is only one person so damn good that he would not leave the slightest trace after him in the electronic world. Everyone has a signature, but I know only one who can cover up the tract to this extent. You!"
So there you go, Artemisia. I have my back clear for now. I can't quit for Raoul and I can't back off for X-breed. I am stuck. We'll see what happens the next coming days.
