Recent content by SV-4: Hack

Weber shifted into a more comfortable position in her seat. Hack watched, his pale blue eyes barely moving to observe the change. He was wary, when she asked. Even the clarification did not quite calm the tension, invisible as it was under permanent neutrality. It was not an exchange. There was...

Indignation was not quite what he had expected on the subject, but he could accept it. He could sense the truth of her words through the high emotion. He had a feeling that Butterfly would as well, should he be exposed to it, but involving more people – and related anomalies – would complicate...

Agent Weber’s stillness was an accommodation for his sake, he knew. Fidgeting was not so much a habit as a tool she used to keep people on alert, or distracted, or both. But they were being accommodating, and he was listening to her, so she sat as still as he did. She was also finally giving him...

Councilman Hack did something few people thought he could – which was much more common than those people would ever be allowed to realize. He suspended the rational area of his mind, and listened quietly, without parsing out translation or explanation. It was not quite a suspension of...

Weber went about reminding him – by action, rather than her usual long-winded argument – why she was the leader of a left-hand team. She did not have the information he wanted, but she had information that might lead to that information, and it was clear she was continuing to investigate. Her...

Hack breathed, slowly. It was not a deep breath, necessarily, nor was it a sigh. She had been honest with him, which indicated the point the two of them were reaching. He could freeze her out again, he had it in him, and her second Self did not intimidate him as much as it may have pressured...

SV-IV “HACK” Agent Weber said a joke. Contrary to popular belief, Councilman Hack was fully equipped with a sense of humor. He just didn’t find the joke funny, so he didn’t laugh. He did, in his own way, acknowledge it – by not acknowledging the statement. Instead he acknowledged the second...

SV-IV “HACK” It took a lot for Councilman SV-4 “Hack” to admit to himself that he was tired. Then again, Agent Gail Weber had always been a lot. Which was why he was the one who met with the L-9 personnel, even when it was not her. They were all like that, like their Councilman, as they...