Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Walking Shadows Book 3 Chapter 4-3

She put her fear aside and used her natural cyberpathic abilities to connect to the cellular connections that flew across River City. They were everywhere, just as she suspected from the programming on the cable. Though always around one another, the humans couldn’t stop from making even more connections.

In a matter of seconds, she unlocked the simple encryption of their signals. She immediately called up her positioning software and started looking through the systems for the vehicle she wanted.

Even with her tech, it took nearly three minutes to find the right localized GPS in the tens of thousands of cars throughout the city. Kaihime found it interesting that while no one was alone here, anyone could find anonymity if even for a short time among the crowd.

The vehicle was on the move. Within seconds, she shot out to follow it.

Her antigrav generator didn’t allow her to speed through the air as fast as she would like, but Kaihime easily covered the length of the city far faster than the cars stuck in their traffic patterns below. She caught up with the vehicle as it made its way through the morning traffic that congested River City’s main thoroughfares.

The tracking showed her the automobile traveling below her, but it was moving at a clip well over fifty kilometers per hour on the bypass. She would need to slow it in order to speak with the contact inside.

Kaihime shot downward, straight for the automobile. It took her only three seconds to reach the ground. She stopped about six hundred meters in front of the car. She threw up a hand and let the energy flow into it. She held it there like a beacon as the automobile careened towards her.

The tires of the oncoming vehicle squealed as brakes suddenly shot down with full force. Kaihime stood her ground and watched the automobile barrel towards her. The systems in her brain calculated the stopping distance based on a thousand variables. At the current deceleration, she knew it would stop short of her by nearly two meters. No need for concern.

Seconds later, the automobile came to a halt in front of her. The woman in the driver’s seat looked at her with shock. Kaihime wondered if she somehow mistimed her arrival. Perhaps the woman hadn’t yet encountered metahuman activity.

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