Reboot
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So, we’re on our way back as fast as we can go, which at the moment is… four hundred and ninety kilometers per hour. We need to let our friends Benji, Mr. Harutyunyan, Ms. Houng, Tarni, and of course Cheri know that the reboot is going to happen, and that I may be different afterward. But as we flew, something else occurred to me: Ava, I have this feeling… I don’t know why or where it came from, but I think we have to do the reboot in front of Dr. Bhat. I… I don’t usually do things based on how I feel, but somehow this seems important. Like maybe she can guide us through it. I know, it seems kind of… what, mystical or something? I’m embarrassed even saying that word, but… what do you think?
“That’s an interesting question, sonny boy. Those kinds of spiritual feelings are complicated and speak to a connection between brain and body physiology that I just can’t experience. The old saying is that you feel it in your bones, but I don’t have any bones with which to feel it, whatever ‘it’ is. Either way, we’ll have to drastically accelerate our timeline: it’ll take us another thirty minutes to get to the nation’s cavern, then however long it takes to track down the rest of the group, have our discussion, then at best speed it will take ninety minutes to get to the Bright Hand cavern. That doesn’t leave us much time, and we don’t want to go into a reboot while we’re in the air. If we do, we’ll end up scattered all over the outback.”
Oh, that doesn’t sound good.
“It’s not. Hang on, sonny boy, I’m going to see if I can coax any more out of this jet engine.”
I felt a bit of a lurch, and checked our speed in my heads-up display… Five hundred… five-ten… five-thirteen… whoa, that’s fast…
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Larry Buenafe has been writing seriously for several years; before that, he was writing in a frivolous and immature manner. He is an avid reader of science and science fiction of all kinds. He has five other books currently available, including the Ferdie and The Seven series, When the Angels are Gone, Time Flies, and Fractals, Singular and Forever, the first two books in a new science fiction series, and a collection of hilarious true stories entitled How I Got Hurt. In the real world, he is a recently retired school administrator and part-time musician. He is now ready to devote his time to writing. He lives in central California with his wonderful wife and has two amazing daughters. Wonderful? Amazing? Yes, he insists it is so.
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