PREY II: End of Era

A Bit of Explaining To Do

Nicole was angry, why hadn't Tristan told her anything, I thought I could trust him. "Where is he?

Dido acted dumb, "Who?"

"TRISTAN!" Nicole shouted

"I don't know him"

Nicole had had enough and marched down the main corridor, hoping she would find him. She walked until she came to a staircase and walked up it. She saw CCTV cameras and gave there nearest a dark look. She continued down another corridor lined with doors, as she walked she glanced at the door symbols '2899', '2900a' and finally 'Ghost'. After all the confusion he caused her, she felt she shouldn't bother knocking and went straight in. Nicole felt she had stepped into an Egyptian tomb instead of a dormitory; the walls were a sand colour and decorated with hieroglyphs and famous tomb paintings.

In the middle of the room sat 'Ghost', he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and track-suit bottoms. He was sitting with his back to her, in a hover-chair. Nicole approached and saw he was typing on a keyboard. She heard a coffee machine bubble beside him. He turned round with two coffees and handed one to her, he always bought her coffee as a way of saying sorry if he had done something wrong.

He sipped the coffee; Nicole knew he disliked coffee, why was he drinking it. After a while he spoke, "I guess I have a lot of explaining to do. Don't I?" he gave a nervous laugh. "Well first, what do you know?"

"Lemme see, my biology essay is ruined, I've been in a bike stunt that nearly killed me, I've been interrogated…em…I've been lied to by SOMEone I trusted and you're carrying on the work Xymos did!" Nicole did this to make Tristan feel bad, it surely worked. Tristan looked solemn.

"You know who I am, don't you?"

"Oh no you couldn't be…Tristan" Nicole said in mock horror.

Tristan averted his eyes, "The bike thing, you can thank Tom, the interrogation courtesy of your mother!" Nicole went silent.

Tristan hesitantly, "Um…that wasn't supposed to come out"

Nicole was wide-eyed, "She's alive?"

Tristan bit his lip, "You'll be shocked to find our company is called Zimos"

Nicole was puzzled, "But Xymos went bankrupt!"

"Yes but not Z-I-mos"

"Oh!"

Nicole sighed, "Explain what's going on!"

"It's a long story"

"Is that your motto?"

Tristan pressed his touch-screen computer and a chair came out and Nicole sat down.

Tristan smiled, "As you always say we've got time to kill!"

End of Chapter 6