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Adventis is the lesser of the two
evils. At least Damian knows how valuable Luke is and won’t do
anything to harm him.”
    “That sly slimeball,” Trista
said. “He’s got some kind of evil plan in the works, and now Luke’s
a part of it.”

Chapter 11.
    “How was your breakfast?”
Damian said, without getting up from his high-backed chair behind
his desk as Luke walked into his office.
    “Good,” Luke said. He had
not tasted any of it.
    Damian eyed Luke’s new
attire. Carlie, sitting in a chair beside him, seemed enraptured.
She reddened, coughed, and looked down at her iPad.
    “I see we got your correct
size,” Damian said. “Those clothes make you look like a lifelong
executive at Adventis, Luke. Really nice.”
    “Thank you,” Luke
said.
    “Please sit,” Damian
said.
    Luke sat in one of the
modern black molded chairs in front of the desk.
    “We’re going to start with a
tour of the building, Luke. Not all of it - that would take years.
Just the most important parts. What did you think of
Miranda?”
    “She’s … adequate,” Luke
said.
    Damian nodded.
    “That’s exactly right. She’s
adequate, and that’s all. But I want her, and all of the other ones
in her model line, to be brilliant. I want them to be magnificent.
I want them, in short, to be like you, Luke. That’s why you’re
here.”
    He grinned.
    “For
inspiration.”
    Luke said
nothing.
    “You’re going to help me
take Adventis Technologies to the next level, Luke,” Damian said.
“With your mind and my leadership, we’re going to be unstoppable.
We’ll create products the world has never seen before. How does
that sound? I won’t hold you to the agreement we made in Fort
Conway. You were desperate, I know. That prison wasn’t a worthy
setting for any corporate transaction. But now we’re in the right
kind of setting. I want you to be a part of Adventis, a vital
part.”
    “What will I receive in
exchange?” Luke said.
    “Money,” Damian said. “Lots
of it. A title. A permanent residence here in the building. Your
own car. Lots and lots of perks, Luke.”
    “What if I … decline your
offer?” Luke said.
    Damian shrugged.
    “There’s lots of police cars
patrolling the city right now, Luke, looking for you. But right now
you’re here, safe as anything behind the walls of my building. To
be entirely frank, my position has secured me a lot of friends in
the police force, Luke. But if you aren’t a part of Adventis, then
I really don’t have a reason to help you out anymore. They’ve still
got a room for you at Fort Conway.”
    Luke’s eyes revealed
nothing.
    “Your new title will be my
Director of New Technologies,” Damian said. “Do you
accept?”

Chapter 12.
    “I wanted the inside of
Adventis to feel like a city into itself,” Damian said, as he,
Carlie, and Luke walked down a long, sweeping hallway past hundreds
of Adventis employees. “We’ve got a huge recreation division, with
a tennis court, swimming pool, and racket ball courts, for
employees to use whenever they want to unwind. We’ve got a state of
the art dining room. And even an in-house theater that plays new
releases. We use it for company presentations
sometimes.”
    Luke half-paid attention to
him while scanning the faces of the Adventis employees around them.
He detected a few androids among them, dressed in identical bright
blue shirts that read “Adventis Technologies” on the front, and
jeans.
    “You see them, don’t you?”
Damian said. “The androids in the blue shirts are test models from
the Corporate Clone line. We’re seeing how they interact with our
human employees, and vice versa.”
    “What have the results
been?” Luke said.
    “Encouraging, but not
perfect yet,” Damian said. “What time is my dinner with the
governor, Carlie? And where?”
    She consulted her
iPad.
    “6:30 at the Beverly
Hilton.”
    “Apple is extremely excited
about what we’re doing,” Damian said. “They want to collaborate on
a line of