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2021-08-20 22:47:01It didn't take long for Megan to get a reading on the girl in front of her, not that she needed that long to begin with.
Thing is, unlike the boys, the girl was an open book. Her thoughts and emotions were vividly on display in everything that she did.
She wanted to be read, Megan deduced, perhaps even loved when she was.
A few minutes of professional psychological analysis and the first thing that made the headline about the girl was that she was fully aware of herself. She knew exactly who she was, superpower and all; and not just that. She was also well-aware of her feminism, her youth, and the role she had been brought to play in Olympus- whatever they were, Megan thought as she still hadn't quite figured that out yet- and how those things made her important to the organization.
However, even more than the self-awareness itself, the girl wanted everyone around her to be aware that she was aware and respect her for it even if she didn't do anything else to earn that respect in the course of their encounter.
Now, it wasn't that Megan was at all uncomfortable with the superiority attitude the girl put forward every chance she got. From her experience in the counseling firm, she actually understood that most millennial teenage girls tended to do that if they had it. But what she found somewhat unsettling was that that attitude had given rise to one vibe that was above all others in the girl, and one she would rather not have to deal with but knew it was inevitable: rebellion.
Whoever the girl was, she was a force of nature. If she wanted to make a statement, she would do so regardless of whatever it took, including but not limited to insensitively interrupting a conversation like she just did.
"Where are you coming from, Kei?" Dennis asked after the dust had settled a bit.
"From the lower levels," she replied, smiling like that should mean something to him. "I was trying to see how long it would take me to round the levels fifty times."
"And how long did it take?" Apparently, he knew that she wanted him to ask.
"Three minutes and a half." She held a smug smile.
"You're getting faster, Kei," he said, clapping his approval.
"I am, aren't I?" she returned and passed the smug smile to Adolf as if to state that she had just gotten one over him.
Watching the exchange, Megan realized that was probably not the first time something like that had occurred. Adolf would do something and Dennis would casually clap him like the pals they were, and then the girl, Kei, would zoom in, make a few notations to steal Dennis's attention, and he, knowing exactly what she wanted, would clap her louder even if he wasn't exactly feeling it, and then she would be pleased and rub it all over Adolf.
Kei always wanted Dennis's attention, he always gave it, and Adolf never minded it. That was their dynamic.
Just then, Kei seemed to notice Megan standing there for the first time; or pretended to. From what Megan had deduced form her personality, she strongly suspected the latter.
"Who's she?" she asked.
"That's Megan," Adolf replied, "D.'s friend."
"The director doesn't have friends, Adolf." She tutted like she was displeased in his ignorance of something so important. "What he has are minions. You know, like Genghis Khan, or Lex Luthor."
Megan felt that she should be offended at being referred to as a minion but when she looked to Dennis and saw that he hadn't even reacted in the slightest bit to the categorical remark that he was a megalomaniacal tyrant, she decided to let it go.
"Well, whatever she is to me, Kei, she and I will be taking our leave now," he replied and steered Megan in the direction they had come from to reach the open space. He pressed his wristwatch and a space opened in the ground to admit an elevator into the area.
"Goodbye, Meg!" Kei shouted behind them, as they went and Megan would have shouted back that her name was Megan and not Meg- she really hated hearing that nickname come from someone she wasn't familiar with to be honest- but by the time she looked back, the teenager had already zoomed off in the complete opposite direction to theirs and Adolf was the one left smiling and waving to her.
Megan returned the smile and wave before turning back to face Dennis squarely. "So, where to now, Director?" she asked. "Let me guess, next stop on the Olympus tour is a four-armed man."
"Actually, Miss Months, we're going to my office," he returned and she shot him a confused look, prompting a smile from him. "Well, you've been going round different parts of the organization throughout the day," he explained, "I think it's about time you finally understood how they all work together."
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Hello reader,First of all, let me say how glad I am to see you here. I don't know if you're a first-time reader of my works, or perhaps you've read my book on GN, Tekna (do give it a read when you have the time :-)), or perhaps you've even read any of my works of any other place apart from here. Whatever it may be, thank you for giving me and my work the opportunity to be a part of your reading history.Now, you probably may have already read some part of the work before getting to this point. I do hope you enjoyed it, and will continue to do so till the end. Please don't be shy in leaving your comments about what you enjoyed, or enjoying, or not about the book; and of course, gems are highly appreciated.If you like this book, please share with your friends.Till I come your way again. I give you all my love.Your friend,The Author.
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Megan had expected quite a number of reactions from her question: shock, denial, deflection, even old-fashioned honesty, but those weren't any of what she got. Minutes after she had put forward the question, all Dennis did was stare at her with a neutral expression on his face like he hadn't even heard a single word she said.She began to feel a little uneasy.Thing is, it was starting to dawn on Megan that perhaps the man in front of her was someone she would never be able to pin down. One moment he was friendly, the next he was fierce; one moment open and ready to share, the next sealed off like a crypt hidden down in the very deep levels of the secret mountain base that was Olympus. Dennis jumped from one demeanour to the other like none of them was existentially who he was and that made her very apprehensive of whom he might truly b
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Fifteen minutes. That was how long Megan realised she had been sitting and tapping her foot impatiently.After the official job offer and acceptance, Dennis had suggested to her that she met the three teenagers- the Supermen, she gave them their proper time at that point- again so that she could get a proper feel of what she was working with now that she was in on everything- Megan preferred to think of it as "in on the relevant details" though. She knew without a doubt that Dennis hadn't told her everything concerning Project Olympus.Anyway, he put in the call and the meeting was arranged in one of Olympus's small conference room- small here meant that it was a larger than the standard conference room but smaller than the others on the mountain- and the teenagers were actually waiting for her when she arrived. Well, all of them except
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"Mum, watch out!"A blinding white light followed by the sound of glass breaking were the last things Megan recalled before her eyes jerked open and she shot up in bed, panting and heaving.A nightmare, Megan, she told herself.It was only a nightmare.Ten...Nine...Eight... She counted down the seconds till her heart calmed down and she looked at the digital clock on her bedside table.4am, it read; right on cue as always.Thing is, nightmares- the particular one she just woke up from, in fact- had been an eventful part of Megan's night for a very long time now. The scream, the light, the sound; they were as familiar to her as the bed she slept on; as familiar as the very incident which changed her life and brought them on to
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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe sun had begun to set when Megan drove a black McLaren up a long driveway to join the long line of prestigious vehicles already queued up there.Her heart thundered in her chest.How in the world would she make the mission work? she thought to herself, terrified. Chances were, she would be found out the moment she stepped out of the car, which didn't give her any comfort.Sensing herself almost a few secomds away from a panic attack, Megan forced herself to calm down, directing her thoughts instead to the events that had led to where she was."I still think a tact team's better suited for this, Director," she recalled her conversation with Dennis right after their meeting was ov
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The elevator came to a stop after what seemed like an eternity but was actually only thirty minutes of flight- Megan checked to be sure- and she stepped out of it.She looked up and all her breath ceased in her throat once again.God, how did they even think to create something like that?she wondered at the sight of the most incredible space she had ever seen.As it turned out, Astrodomo's giant dome was a six-floor glass mansion on the inside, but it was unlike any type Megan had knowledge of before.Thing is, while the building did have six floors, they actually only extended from the wall to a quarter across the almost stadium size length of the space in a semicircle that held what looked like three sitting rooms, three receiving rooms, bedrooms too nume
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The picture didn't do him justice at all, was the first thought that popped into Megan's head at the sight of Ricardo. While she found out that he looked very much like in the picture she had seen, she also realized to her surprise that some of his features had been greatly underwhelmed by it.His eyes for one, she thought. The picture had made them seem black but they were actually dark brown, with a little highlight of black that shone with intelligence not especially common to every individual, even some so-called geniuses that Megan had met during the course of her psychology career.It was like they could see much more than just the physical, she appraised; and on some level, she believed they could.She also noted that his hair had gotten an upgrade- sh
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