"If you were a threat to them why did they let you remain as you were then?"
"My creator had another idea. She was going to have me bred so they could run analysis on my babies to see if they inherited any advanced technological function. Thankfully your Agency took the Code out before that hellish experiment could get started."
"I'd like to very much meet your research creator." I thought with grimness and ill will of mind.
"You already have."
I stopped and glanced up from my search in startlement at Flicker.
She explained, "Jane Sola, you know her as Jane Worthy."
"Why didn't you tell me sooner? I swear I'll put a bullet in her brain when I get back!"
"No don't do that. Not just yet anyway. Right now she's being useful, but when she's done I'll deal with her myself."
I shook my head, as I marveled at Flicker's restraint. "It's hard to imagine how after suffering as you have that you can hold off from administering justice richly deserved!"
"I have my reasons." Was Flicker's unhelpful response.
"You want to protect the Agency that bad huh? Or is it because you want to protect your brothers?"
Flicker glanced at me startled, "You know?"
"It's not hard to recognize the similarities. When are you going to tell them?"
"I don't know."
"If you don't I will." I thought with firmness of purpose.
"Utah……"
"There is nothing for you to be ashamed of or hide from! You have family that loves you and you should be in contact with them and not coasting around the edges primarily focused on just keeping them safe from a distance, as your one only contact with them."
Flicker's gaze grew accusing, "You have family and yet you don't have anything to do with them!"
"That's because as you well know they don't love me. On a different topic I would really appreciate it if you would stop dissecting every corner of my mind!
She glanced down, "I'm sorry!"
"You're forgiven. Now let's get back to work so we can get out of here."
She nodded and we both went back to searching.
Cautiously we made our way into other rooms in search of the device we had come for. I found bits and pieces of several, but none that were intact. It was beginning to look very grim for us in terms of our chances of coming out of here successful.
Always throughout our search into the outlying rooms we encountered the same destruction, as we had in the first room behind the bulkhead door. There had to of been a hundred or more people still in this part of the facility when it had been compromised and the bulkhead door slammed shut and locked from the outside.