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Each concealed a gun with a silencer on his person, and had the clearance to kill both the psychic and himself in the event that either was compromised.
    As a means of bonding their relationship, Dakota’s suit had given her permission to call him by his first name, Teddy. She considered it an odd privilege. Not only did he refer to her as ‘the subject’ when speaking with the other team members, but she had specific and rigid instructions never to look him in the eye.
    Teddy smiled politely and held open the door of the briefing room. It was bare, but for a rectangular table and some chairs around it. There was a glass bowl of candy bars on the table.
    They sat opposite each other. ‘Take one,’ Teddy invited.
    ‘Thank you.’ She put a sweet in her mouth. It was laced with memory-enhancing drugs.
    Teddy opened the laptop into which he would log information throughout the session. It contained a detailed and complete profile of her as well as the list of command codes and keying gestures that would elicit different responses from her.
    ‘How are you today?’
    Her breathing had become slower and deeper, but her eyes remained open and alert. ‘Fine. Thank you.’
    ‘Good. Any questions?’
    ‘No.’
    ‘Shall we begin?’
    ‘Yes.’
    Teddy moved so fast he was holding open the door for her before she was out of her chair. In silence they proceeded to a nearby ops room where the actual mission would be carried out.
    The ops room was built like a vault. There were computer banks to the front and rear. A back room led off from it, where two men could sit and view the proceedings. In the middle was the ‘trip’ seat, a reclining, padded seat that looked very much like a dentist chair, only much bigger. It faced a large screen. Dakota climbed into it. It was very snug and curved around her like a cradle. She put on the pair of headphones that lay by the side of it and leaned back. A device around the back of her neck held her rigid while the biotech activated the four metal clamps on her arms and wrists that pinned her to the machine. When Teddy had loaded the targeting coordinates into the psychotronics console, he turned toward her and applied the keying gestures and said the code words that would call forth Dakota’s most powerful alter, Shekina, to come to the front of her mind and hold her body.
    Shekina’s arrival was heralded only by a change of expression in the girl’s eyes  -  superior confidence and unconcealed disdain for Teddy. She despised him.
    Like a robot he uttered the exact same words he had every day for the past year and a half. ‘Today your instructions are to remote view this time next week on the vector coordinates you are given. Is that clear?’
    ‘Yes.’ Her job was to drag data out of her trip into the future.
    With Shekina in full command, Teddy called the other team members into the room. The comm tech, an ex-computer hacker with a criminal record, tasked with monitoring her heartbeat and, whenever targets were involved, theirs too; and the biotech, who proceeded to attach the EEG headband and the heart monitor wires. Then he inserted an IV needle into the permanent internal IV catheter in her arm and started the drip. With a syringe he pushed the first dose of psychoactive drugs into the IV line.
    Almost immediately her body became anesthetized and heavy, in direct contrast to her mental state, which was greatly heightened. Only her judgmental machinery remained untouched. She would break through into her mission exactly as she had been before the drugs.
    In her drug-induced hypnosis, Shekina heard Teddy say, ‘Abandon amazement. Pay attention. Look at everything.’
    The lights went down and brainwave tones were played through her headphones. Vector coordinates appeared on the screen and she was told to focus her mind on that location.
    Long.: 66 ° 33’6,  60”S
    Lat.:99 ° 50’24, 84”E
    The image of the cabalistic tree of life was projected onto the screen and she began