Witness X by Sarah Moorhead

Author:Sarah Moorhead
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2035

9.08 p.m.

‘Are you sure you don’t want a coffee?’ Tom held up his own cup. ‘It’s getting late – caffeine might help?’

He was only trying to distract her, Kyra knew that, with idle chat and gossip about the officers they had worked with back in the day, but she could tell he was nervous too, though for different reasons. How could he possibly understand the risk she was about to undertake?

She took a few deep breaths and said, ‘I usually puke if I eat or drink anything beforehand.’ She could see Jimmy in the lab; he hadn’t spoken to her since he’d arrived. But at least he was here.

‘What’s that about? Mind-travel sickness?’ asked Tom.

‘Sort of.’ She couldn’t manage a smile. ‘Do you think he’ll be handcuffed?’

‘I won’t let him near you.’

‘God knows what I’m going to see in there.’

Tom studied the sculpture of the brain on the reception desk and ran his finger over one of the lines. ‘What’s it like, going into someone else’s head?’

‘Like watching home movies. That’s the only way I can describe it; flashes of different images and sometimes words come to my mind, or feelings that aren’t mine overwhelm me. Unlike the movies, I sort of … experience things … I can even smell things at times.’ Her stomach was churning with anxiety.

‘Can you feel sensations? Does it hurt?’ he asked, curious.

‘No, not physically. Although once I went into Jimmy’s head and he had had rather a lot to drink the night before and I caught his hangover. Believe me, I felt that!’

‘Really?’ Tom sounded amazed.

‘Yeah, it was … weird.’ She tried to manage a smile, but it must have looked more like a grimace. ‘Not fair, really, all of the hangover, none of the beer.’ She thought about the other side-effects she was suffering these days. They were getting more intense.

She heard a noise outside. Oh God, was this it?

She was glad Jimmy was there, but she wished he’d talk to her. Didn’t she need her friends at a time like this? She saw CASNDRA’s bed move out, the lights turn from red to green.

‘I can’t guarantee any useful information,’ she told Tom. ‘It’s like I said, I don’t know how much control he’ll have over his memories. When I work with Jimmy I ask him to focus on something specific and that’s usually what I see. I suppose to some degree it depends on what Lomax wants to show me. I’m not sure yet whether someone can withhold memories or not. We haven’t tested for that.’

‘No worries, just give it a go,’ Tom said.

Give it a go, like it was a fairground game.

‘I think the best tack to take is if you ask Lomax a few questions before we go down, try to tune him in to what we’re looking for.’ She paused. ‘Tom, say this doesn’t work, then what are we going to do next? How are we going to solve this? Is there anyone else we can use the tech on?’ She thought briefly of Ray Clarke.

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