Agent in the Dark

Asia shifted, as she gradually came awake. She was so warm. Blinking awake she felt around her with a hand. John was gone, but he hadn't been gone for long, because the bed behind her was still warm.

She sat up slowly and looked around the room, as the blankets fell away from her. Looking down she saw that her chest was still enclosed in her bra and her panties were still on. She blushed a little, as she admitted to herself that she had been wanting to awaken to experience John's passion for her. Frankly she was surprised to not have awakened so.

John wasn't in the room, but he had made the fire big and bold again. It was actually hot in the room. She got up and went to a narrow window and undid the clever latch that released the wooden shutter on the outside. A chilly breeze blew through the narrow window to greet her with the freshness of the Alaskan air.

She turned from the window to stare at what had caught her attention earlier, when she lay on the bed. In a corner of the room there was a waterproof tarp thrown over something. It most likely concealed her equipment.

Going to the tarp she pulled the tarp off of what it concealed. She found what she'd expected to find. There were several connected screens all with corresponding units. It was state-of-the-art equipment and more than enough for what she needed to work with to break the Code. A power cord disappeared up through the thatched roof, which most likely led to a solar panel array on the roof.

Asia engaged the startup function and the screens instantly flickered to life before her. Going to her pants that John had hung up to dry before he had disappeared she found her drives in their watertight container. The drives were dampened by the sweat of her palm, as she went through waves of nervous anxiety, in her approach toward the gleaming displays in the corner of the room. She sat down in the chair provided and fingers shaking she tried the first drive. It was a dud and so was the next one, but the third, fourth, and fifth drives all came alive with the data of the Code's blueprint.

"Oh thank you God!" She exclaimed, in a release of anxiety.

She'd done it! She could do this! It might take some trial and error to break the Code, but she'd do it! Her hands instinctively reached out for the keyboards just as a sudden gust of wind filled the room with musical sound, which completely startled her.