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“Is he going to be mad? He’s so sweet normally.”
“Don’t worry. Do you always date him in the mask?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay. Lots of quiet places?”
“We mainly go on picnics. He brings the mains; I bring dessert.” She looked at the arrangement he had sent. “We go to a lot of greenhouses and arboretums. He likes the plants and flowers.”
Arcady. “Huh. Unexpected.”
“I thought you knew all about the patrons and their preferences.”
“Well, I do, and that is not what he has done with his previous escorts.”
Kyda blinked. “Oh. How many others does he use?”
“Three. He uses them in rotation for sex.”
Kyda nodded. “Right. Of course. He seems very nice and sweet. He has needs. I am amazed that he was matched with me at all.”
She closed her eyes and focused on letting the nanites keep fixing her.
Arcady smiled. “Kritz thinks he has contained your issue. It’s a small field generator that will keep your effect in check. It will manifest as a pretty cuff on both legs, wrists, and neck. There will be a field that removes particles as they leave your skin.”
“Uh, that sounds interesting. I don’t usually wear jewellery.”
“You will get used to it. It settles into the skin, and you won’t even feel it. Everything is completely natural.”
“As natural as implants can be.” She sighed. “How am I doing?”
“You have a few more days in the unit. When the cuffs are ready, we will get you out for installation, but you will have a few days here until it is confirmed that you are contained.”
Kyda nodded and continued to look at the flowers after Arcady left her. She pressed her hand to the glass. He wouldn’t be lonely without her. He had other companions to keep him company. She hoped he was okay.
Chapter Two
Kynor kept watching his occasional combat partner pressing the magnetic equivalent of half a tall building. “Ados, what’s up?” He half-heartedly kept going on his own workout.
Ados settled the weights and sat up. “What?”
“You normally are coming back from a BDC date by now with a relaxed expression on your face, or you are coming back smelling of flowers with a silly grin.” Kynor stopped doing chin-ups with a few hundred kilos attached to his legs.
Ados grunted and swiped a towel over his face. “I am off dating. My girlfriend got thrown through a window at work. She’s smashed up, and I am not even supposed to know where she is.”
Kynor dropped with a clatter. “What?”
“My escort was reported as off for medical reasons, so I went into their system and got her location and status. From there, I was able to put things together, and she was the young woman shoved through the window before we got back.”
Kynor wanted to see if his sister was telling the truth. “So? Don’t you have half a dozen escorts in your rotation? Pick another one.”
Ados shook his head. “No. I can just jerk off for the tension, but fifty-three was just so... perfect. She leaned on me, and we had picnics in all kinds of green and growing spaces. She looked so happy surrounded by all of it, and I wanted to make her happy.”
“So, you two never...”
Ados shrugged. “Nah. She’s a companion, not a lover. I’m really worried. All traces of her disappeared from the normal systems, and then I went in through Z Corp.”
“So, you just want her as a companion?”
