Red-Neo Initiative
“No secrets”, Double X thought to herself.
She leaned back in a stretch in front of her workspace. The Corsair i8100 with its quad screen setup spanned the distance of the curved desk before her. The keyboard filled the darkened room with its LED soft lavender-velvet glow. The colors soothed her arcing mind.
The quiet hum of its custom built water-cooling system completed the ambiance with a speaker full of recorded Zen drip. Normally Double X worked well within this neon silence, she preferred it. It helped her focus on whatever mundane task was at hand. Not tonight though.
Double X straightened up. She logged in through the 3 passwords on the front screen. Cracked the knuckles on each hand, then grabbed her purple Kraken Razor Kitty headphones from their charging stand. She took a moment to smirk at her 30 year old self in the 13 year old wildflower sticker on the side.
They weren't as nice as the Meze Audio Elites charging in the station next to it, but she wasn’t needing the extras tonight. This session was all for her and she wanted to feel pretty doing it. The headphones brought giddy-happy feelings of when they had first met all those years ago.
She quickly selected some tunes from her favorite EDM list. Letting the bump and grind of the techno wash over her. For just a moment she closed her eyes and smiled. Let the hunt begin
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Her quarry had disappeared almost 3 years ago. No trace. Nada. Nothing tangible. Like he never existed. She knew he was still out there though, and tonight she was going to find him. He would leave trace evidence. He built it into everything he did. Just for her, so she would feel safe knowing he remembered her.
She set up an autorun parameter for X, FB, Tocks and a few other minor social networks. They would run their search in the background through her facial recognition software. Everything else had to be done manually.
Double X checked to make sure the additional security and VPNS were running before slipping the drive into its port. A black screen came to light up on the second screen. Dark web blacklist. A backdoor to their shared universe. She quickly typed in a series of commands pulling up a selection of posts about gaming.
Where are you? She frowned and glared are the cascading posts. Watched as they flickered up and down the lists, moving with the amount of traffic the site tracked. She clicked on the filter, the only way to search for anything on this site.
Double X highlighted the word ‘Neo’ then selected the color red on the color wheel next to it. Why does he have to make it so complicated? She forced herself to exhale, suprised that she had been holding her breath. Watched as her cursor seemed to move itself of its own accord over to the ‘Initiate’ button.
I’m coming for you my Honeybee…
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