Migration Of Tufted Duck

nanowriwoe @ 2008-12-01T02: 02:00






thirteenth chapter on the road remaining Thirty Zero, the mystery of the coordinates and the world outside the network, not necessarily in that order of appearance or importance.


completely went out the influence of the Internet on Wednesday morning.
completely lost the connection and filters actually went out. Those who were not on the verge of catatonia looked outside to see the dry grass, slightly cloudy sky less blue tone he used to be and a bird singing a completely different way than normal. colors of their clothes were more opaque than usual, Evan black pants and blue pencils were less clearly written. The radio sounded better in the front than at the bottom of the car and Abel was not anywhere. Evan


eyes barely opened and found the roof of the car. Turned and pretended to sleep for a couple of hours, and although everyone knew who pretended no one said anything.
- Damn, give me the matrix. - Jay said breaking the silence. Clara chuckled.
- I knew you were not ready to see the opaque world. - He said when the victim's face looked. - The network will spoil you as much as your parents. - That's a lot. - Contributed Erin, who was looking out the window at him. - The day is very different from the night ... - Definitely. - Clara smiled. - On the day always feels the difference. Filters reality is unbelievable.
- It was once tried to install the filters by satellite. - I told Paige that he was driving the car with particular attention. - But finally decided it was unworkable, because of security concerns.

did not want to send children into space
contributed Evan's mind,
was too difficult to keep properly monitored
.
- Do you think that at some point the network reaches all sides? - Erin asked, now curious.
- There are many places where they do not want. - A statement Clara. - Personally, where I lived many people saw the Red-eyed very superstitious. They said people were dying in it all the time.

all the time not just sometimes.

- That's not so strange ... - Paige chuckled. - It is known that there have been people killed by excessive stress on the brain that causes Network. But all these things are mentioned in all courses prior to the chemical bath. That is why many parents prefer to wait until their children grow up before allowing them to connect.
- I have the network from six months. - Jay shrugged. - They say it is much less dangerous when used from very small, well your parents are in charge to connect or disconnect, so they will care.
- The brain can use the Net without problems for more than sixty hours. - Clara seemed happy to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject. - But more than that becomes dangerous. So it is advisable to switch off while sleeping.
- I once read a story about a guy who lost his soul on the Net - Jay laughed. - I suppose that there are Abel and his friends.
- Spirits of the Net are one of the most important secrets of the Group. - Paige smiled and said in a joking tone. - We must kill them all once we finish. Evan
pretended to wake up and all fell silent for a moment.
- Good morning, sleeping beauty. - Well, everyone except Jay. Evan smiled slightly.
- Just tell me you were not you the one who kissed me awake. - Hell, no, I do not like redheads. - We will be coming to the next point in an hour or so. - The interrupted Paige. - And then there's no more points, so I depend on you to discover where we go. - We? - Evan laughed, and laughter was accompanied by a grimace of pain. - Your if you have confidence. - The good with the puzzles is Erin. - Paige answered.

Evan blinked a few times and said nothing. He wondered when he had learned was that Paige something about his friends and absently looked for the date in its memory. Not find it so had to rely on fingers to understand what was the matter.
trip took seven days. In a week the world had become one, but the real world kept turning. He realized he had no time for nonsense and had to act soon. Time waits for no one, and Arima did not appear to wait for him either.

He settled in place and looked out the window to be the dull sky and the dry grass in the world outside the network
had spent years without seeing them and it seems more fictional than the colors of the Web

Had killed someone, he could not keep the same idea will come back to the head.
understood that it was necessary, that Tyler had lost his mind and Arima would not hesitate to kill anyone to get whatever he wanted to do with the Fall, but that fact is not insensitive to reality again. Basically
had hoped that everything was finished quickly and easily resolved, as in a video game, movie or a book, but real life had decided to be a bit more cruel than he had expected it would.

looked at the car. Paige
driving now could not use automatic beside her as she explained Clara use the GPS system rather outdated that car had.
Jay looked over the shoulder of his girlfriend, and gave data completely useless on the signage. Erin
observed a small white paper, folded into a triangle.

When Evan was going to say something, she looked at him and smiled.
- was silly, not as I did not realize before.
- What are you talking?
- The riddle clear. It was foolish, anyone would have noticed. - Erin laughed and touched his temple with the right index finger. - It's not even difficult.
- Did you find the place? - Evan asked him, puzzled.
- Yes. I understood while you were sleeping. I myself told you the answer, the track is not in the paper, the track is paper. - Erin extended it to show it, he moved a little to get it better.
- I still do not understand. - Joked, and she laughed too.
- There are four vertices. Four points to which they are entitled Thirty-zero coordinates. And finally two lines connecting opposite corners. And in the center, we are looking at equal distances Thirty Zero.
- What the hell. - Evan hit his forehead with the palm of the hand. - It's stupid.
- I know. But it makes sense ... There is absolutely nothing in the intersection of Ecuador and the Greenwich Meridian. Only water.
- And they are ... In the center of the world. - Evan laughed. - That sounds like something that would make my father ...
- would be good to try to confirm if I am right now that we have something. - Erin smiled slightly. - I can still be wrong, after all, the answer is too obvious.
- you know ... If the answer is so obvious is probably correct.
- will trust your word. - She laughed, relaxing a bit in place. - You can blame me if we lose.
- Before you look for the nearest port to Thirty Zero ... Something tells me if it is the right place, we will have another surprise waiting for us.


were several miles of dry grass and gray skies, and even more miles of absolutely nothing. For a moment thought that they would go to the Web without seeing a village, until they found a small town.

For a moment he wondered if they were back on the Net
The town was small and quaint, as quaint as a small town could be on the outside of the network
Clara smiled.
- Looks like we got lucky. This seems to be a quiet place.
- Not as bad as they said. - Jay looked at the little town by the car window. - It's kind of small and seems boring, but okay.
- Not everything off the Net is bad, stupid. - Clara laughed giving a small bump on the head playfully. - And there are places like big cities ... Not much difference.
- If it is true that there are places no man's land. - Paige intervened. - But most places outside of the Network are like this. Small towns and peaceful.
- stop here? - Asked Erin. - We could see how people are.
- No, no. - Clara leaned over the back of your seat. - No unnecessary stress we ... Just as there are ordinary people, most of these peoples as terrorist hideouts and hostages.
- There is nothing the authorities can do. The village people always cover his own even if they know that something is wrong. - Paige spoke again. - It's worse in the towns where they fear the Red ...
- Devils. - Jay looked a little out of the window, now more curious than at the beginning to see some of these people. - I wonder how many of them will be our real enemies. Who knows, maybe one of them is waiting to kill us to stop.
- Jay, honey, you're delirious again. - Clara gave him a smile (of those smiles that only brides know how to use). - There is probably nothing here, so just follow.
- I have to see if Erin was right with his idea. - Evan joined the conversation for the first time. Everyone thought he had been awfully quiet in the last few hours, but remained ignorant of events. Evan

not think out of their ignorance, even in the background wondering how smart they were to assume what was actually happening. Everyone seemed too calm, too relaxed to really know.
noticed that I had no idea just how much of the story and how he had said no. The attack came a sense of unreality that I could not help feeling since this began.

It felt like floating on a cloud of strange things meaningless.
He frowned.

Damn ... Even he felt the mood to sigh.



The rest of the trip outside of the network was tense.
Some stones crashed into the car and everyone knew it was no accident.
passed by a couple of areas where there were people who seemed completely peaceful and where nothing happened when they crossed the road to find the other side.
In a way it had created a little paranoia in each of them (except for Evan, who was from the beginning), and almost expected to see a murderer around every corner.
wanted to blame in part the growing heat, which became more and more unbearable and suffocating the closer to Ecuador, but they knew that such feelings of suffocation were mostly causad0s by paranoia and not vice versa. Erin noted

folded paper again.
was a little curious about Mr. Gabriel Rhodes, who had a way so simple but so clever to tell them the exact spot where he awaited Thirty Zero.

Clara looked at everything as a new adventure.
If six years ago as a child lost in a neighborhood most of the world outside the internet, you had said it would end in such a situation, it would believed they were lying.

Paige knew this was part of his job.
that does not mean he planned to return just ask for a raise, but I knew that most of the things that had happened up to now were working on the minutiae of the Disciplinary Unit of the Division Rhodes. But go, stop the end of the world as we knew it was not included in the contract.

Jay was bored to death. Curse the
just wanted to give a couple of good punches and feel good about yourself. What the hell was wrong with this group? There were people who simply could not take advantage of situations where they were.
Well, at least Clara was overjoyed. Some day I might call that a honeymoon bizarre.

Finally, Evan just waiting for the next event.
took three hours without crushing their world. And this would happen next.



The network felt safe and comforting.
Normally only was there, most of the group had become so accustomed to its existence and not even considered as existing.

It was like the air, do not appreciate until you realize that you had not.
then walked into crisis because it was opaque and you were choking to feel disconnected from the rest of the universe.
Three days had passed, and approached a new node.

filters were actually the first to be activated, at which time all let out a quiet sigh.
were connected to the Internet to find its blue skies and green pastures. The song of birds, animals, colors, pink car ...
Ah, hell.


Evan closed his eyes and barely touched the third level.
Rather than change the color of the car changed the game to do upholstery.
Everyone stared and smiled innocently.

Well, maybe everything had calmed down a bit.




Abel was found three hours later.
After rigor questions ("Are right? "," They had to make many stops? "Were there any terrorists murder?"), set out to spread the news of the day.
- Thirty William is the way to zero. - Les informed first and foremost. - Gabriel and William extended his approval and said it would open the entry you personally.
- Yes sir, that's my father, never miss an opportunity to scrub on your face that need it. - Evan laughed. - Glad to see that has not changed at all in recent days.
- And finally Kathe says he wants to know before you go to Thirty Zero. But he says he will only do so if they port within two days.
- The port? - Clara asked puzzled, could not remember ports in this area.
- There is a port near Thirty Zero. If you can find there is she waiting. He says he will accompany the final stretch and from there to the proper place. If you could convince her to get the third signature, and enter the Shrine.
- Go. This sounds much easier than the other two ... - Jay laughed and leaned against the seat, he looked much more relaxed. - And from thence to Thirty-Zero, right?
- Yes. - Erin smiled. - And once there, hopefully this is resolved soon.
- From a ship leaves port Thirty Zero every two or three hours, normally used by employees who work there and know that shipments with supplies and support can become more likely if the port is private.
- I see ... - finally replied Clara. - How is isolated prefer personal and restricted access to ports. That's not necessarily bad, but it does mean that if we put us as stowaways will run a good risk ...
- In other words, our best bet is to be liked Miss Kathe. - Erin concluded with a sigh. - After much thinking, is a bit frustrating to depend on someone else to go ...
- She does not want me just me, right? - Evan was allowed to play against the prospect hoping to meet someone without having to be alone, of complete or abuse of the Third Level.
- She said she wanted to meet the whole group. He seemed as curious about you as your fellow ... - I said Abel with a small smile.
- That sounds fantastic. - Evan laughed. - I was pretty tired of having to know everyone in dramatic scenes that ruin my life and that no other person suffers a bit for a change. I think I'll finally avenged.
- You can not complain, it seems that you finally played a good holiday. - Jay laughed too. - Better enjoy them with your luck you'll never ever have them.



With some anxiety because of its proximity to the goal that had seemed unattainable for so many days, the small group allowed for improvised a quick stop to buy ice cream (and that was that every minute the heat was becoming more unbearable) and see on the maps which was the nearest port. They extended
map (the time when there were only a couple of points seemed terribly far away) to note that the two ports that really seemed viable were several days away. There was no way to reach any of the two ports time and that was more than clear.

drew a line marking the Ecuador, and did not find any private port to be placed on the map and was close to that line where it was located Thirty assumed zero, even doing several web searches on ports and satellite photos, returned no results satisfactory.
It was at that moment everyone doubted. If Thirty Zero did not appear on the map, it would be quite illogical that the doors leading to the place were uncovered for easy access, or even be possible to find.

All were observed, with the curiosity typical of the person after discovering something you want to know if the rest his group has the same idea and some smiled to see that it was. Would have to take a leap of faith to reach the port of Thirty Zero. Believe it was in response to Erin had no hesitation at all (or even dudándolo, but do it anyway.)
the end, the person who was put to the vote itself Abel (who was actually the only one that was free and could not eat) and while taking their ice cream all except itself seemed quite nervous Erin throughout the state, voted to be brave (or pretend to be) and follow the road hoping that the deduction of it was correct.
I could appeal or something like that if the road became more suicide bomber than they expected it to be, but in part all had begun to assume that sooner or later all the fun and quiet trip would go to hell.


departed a couple of hours later, when the sun had gone down a bit.
Of these obviously more uncomfortable during the trip itself was Erin, that every minute a little doubt that lead was getting to where I was supposed to being pregnant. Evan

remained silent almost the whole way.
was feeling increasingly more nervous as they approached the place. His concept of reality and the world once again felt threatened by the possibility of another encounter with his father and the final member of the Trinity of Group A.
blame anyone supposed to admit that I had the willies, but still chose not to. In part he did not want them to feel more nervous than they already should be feeling, and partly admitted himself that he was a proud bastard and did not want to tell the world he had discovered some secret panic even worse than what had found.


They reached the coast a couple of degrees below the Ecuador and followed the road from the beach.
once again thanked the gods of technology killer heat to save them had outside, and that they were, talking about air conditioning, when Clara noticed something obvious.
- never see the port if you look on the net - look out the window and everyone assumed it had been disconnected. - It may even be dangerous to stay connected ... After all, they want to hide there, so within the network simply does not exist.
- Hell ... - Jay river dropping the link for your connection. - I swear you can just give someone a good punch in the mouth for making this so complicated.
- You'll have to hit many people. - Paige smiled while also logged out and watched the landscape completely different place without the Net - Oops ... here is really very different.
- It seems to really hide something. - Clara said with a small mischievous smile on his lips. - We have a good track, then.
- A good track ... I'd better keep your eyes open. - Evan leaned back in his seat. I could practically smell the issues closely.



saw the port over two hundred miles down the place where they had begun to follow the coast.
was very small and hardly looked like a port, and should be very easy to spend long, so would have been with them were it not that the cry of Clara's "there is, there is" had the amazing effect of making all jumped from their seats and look where she was pointing.
and indeed worryingly, the port more like a small canoe station where there was only a fairly small and cheap boat should not load more than a few passengers.
Although tourism seemed a point of power, just had to connect to the Internet a few seconds to make sure there all I saw was a lot of forest, and some signs of "No Trespassing."

Kathe
were welcomed by Brand in person. Evan
at that time knew better than anyone in the history of this woman (which imagined an entire adult), was a little surprised to see a fourteen year old girl that looks lost.
- I met Evan! - He cried just saw them and approached them with an affable smile. - I'm glad to have you here, I thought it would not arrive until tomorrow, or do not arrive ... Or something.
- is because we were in the area, Miss Brand. - Paige replied with what appeared to be too normal.
- You can call Kathe. - She laughed. - And the same for you, call Kathe, and feel comfortable this is my little private port access Thirty Zero.
- Does yours? - Erin asked before anyone managed to say a word.
- "Yours", it says "yours." - The admonished the girl with a playful gesture. - After all, I am less than all of you.
- Good. - Erin nodded. - Does yours?
- Every part of the triumvirate has private access to Thirty Zero. Of course when deprived locations are secret, but I preferred them here. - The girl smiled again. - I heard that they had already occupied the access of Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Lowe.
- Busy? - He dared to ask Clare, who felt almost as children feel when the have to meet Santa Claus.
- Yes Arima people seem to want to get rid of the Red ... - Kathe narrowed her green eyes, and wrinkled her nose in a gesture of displeasure. - Much has been said about the Fall ... In part, this is not something I expect to have to cope without my grandmother ...
- Kathe? - Evan ventured, no longer seemed so intimidated by it as the beginning. - If you really have occupied the other access points, I would reach zero Thirty ASAP. If everything is as we think or as we have suggested, this issue is much more serious than we thought.
- Yeah, I know. - She smiled. - But for non-traditional problems must use non-traditional solutions, that my grandmother taught me.
- then we are a nontraditional solution, right?
- Yep. - The girl laughed. - But come, follow me and listen carefully, will not be lost.

He led a perfectly straight road, but stopped to look at the sides several times, almost like you're really lost.
I smiled at all, they did not feel particularly confianzudos today, as I commented on the wonders of having people watch the roads. It really seemed to be a disinterested teenager, and maybe everyone would have believed of not knowing his background.
But they knew and that was enough.

When she guided them to the canoes, all looked on with critical eyes.
were on the edge of the ocean itself and several of them seemed that they could not survive or a cruise on the lake in the park, much less reach Thirty Zero, which was to be several hundreds of miles away. Kathe
approached one of the two boats that had more than twenty canoes and inspected with particular care.
- I guess some of you know row, right?
- I se. - Jay intervened, partly rowing and partly knew I wanted to impress his girlfriend and the girl is, she was pretty, a millionaire and make a good friend (no benefits, of course, because Jay was in a serious relationship and those they are taking ... Well, really). It looked a lot like photos of Margaretha Brand showing documentaries and Web pages, but gave no more important thing paranoia was Evan.
- Fantastic. - The girl smiled broadly. - You will have to help put out then.
- Do you plan to paddle to get there? - Erin asked, looking at the ocean both within and outside the net and found only water.
- Sure. - Kathe laughed and looked at them one by one. - Only you can reach zero Thirty paddling. But you know which way to paddle.
- us put then. - Jay Clara pushed a bit in the direction of the canoes. - If you do not get there soon begin, so get to work baby.
- Oh, my god ... - Jay sighed but got carried away with no complaints. The universe No man could face the wrath of an angry girlfriend.

They sat on the boat and started rowing.
had advanced just a few feet when Kathe closed his eyes and the water began to sink and opened not far from them. Everyone was ready
for something unexpected, but not for a miracle, so I let out a collective sigh when he saw that it was only a huge submarine.
then noticed that there was a huge submarine less than ten meters from the coast and began to worry again. Kathe

stood in the boat and waved fervently shaking his arm, almost like someone found an old friend from afar and want to draw your attention. The boat swayed a little, nearly killing Paige of a heart attack in the process (Evan someday discover that she could not swim).
- Come, come, come and get us. - He told them to sit back and put his hands on the oars casually. - My Submarine is much faster than the methods of Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Gabriel system is offline, so we can probably cut some of the advantage they have and be on time. They rowed and rowed

. Suicide
If the SS had seemed fantastic, one submarine (that Kathe was affectionately called "Homunculus") was totally out of any league.
was very spacious on the inside, had large windows and was clearly designed for tourists in it. She was sailed by two people and a few spirits, working in teams. The two sailors were blond with blue eyes, and guessed that Evan would Nodes rejected or withdrawn, or at least previous experiments Kathe's grandmother. Kindly
His mind could not be said Kathe experiments because of their age, as both sailors seemed to have more than twenty years and she seemed not even eighteen, but it led to think that if this girl had created seven Arianna years ago, following the accounts left two options. O Kathe was a child when I had to extrapolate the mutation in their genes, or simply Kathe Brand could not grow old and was an experiment in itself. Evan's mind wisely, perhaps more accustomed to the methods of defense, that train of thought derailed before it was too late and give him the chance to learn another traumatic event.

The submarine began to move, and listened to Kathe ask one of his crew if they could paint it yellow like the song.


Evan sighed and chose not to hear the rest of the conversation. I would have enough
traumatic events when he reached Thirty Zero.





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ILU Kath. That aside
.... LOL

PLOT.