"Leanne?"The questioned sound but a buzzing vibration in his head.He nodded again almost fearfully.The electronic voice no more than a whisper, a brea...th in his ear."You know you must earn it Leanne."Again the pause, the silence making the words eat into his brain,"I have some presents for you first."The silence seemed to go on longer this time, a silence leaving himquivering at the frightening thoughts planted in his mind by those wordsas they went around and around in his head."Are you going. ?He sat back at his desk and I took one ofthe two chairs opposite.Looking back, it was one of those mundaneconversations between boss and new recruit.There was no clue as to the future.He told me a bit about the company that Ialready knew, about how interested he was in the ?trainee experiment?. I smiledback and mouthed the usual platitudes to be expected of any new employee. Iguess it lasted about 15 minutes.But the thing that intrigued methroughout the interview was on the side table behind. Die Möglichkeit, Viren auf spezielle DNA-Sequenzen zu programmieren und so gezielt einzusetzen waren schon lange bekannt, aber selbstverständlich verboten. Erst der Krieg riss die moralische Mauer ein, die Supermächte davon abhielt, diese entsetzliche Waffe zu nutzen. Krankheiten, die nur Soldaten des Gegners befiehlen, sie Kampfunfähig machten oder gar töteten wurden bald nachgewiesen. Als nicht nur Soldaten, sondern auch Zivilisten der Krankheit zum Opfer fielen wurde bald klar: Ziel des. “I want to fuck you, and I know you want the same from me. I can see it in your eyes. So finish your drink and let’s get the fuck out of here.”The shoe that I was dangling slipped from my toes and hit the floor as I was trying to absorb what he was saying. Was he thinking of me as nothing more than a slut, an easy target willing to open my legs for him? Damn it! He was right! I did want to fuck him, but I didn’t want to make myself look too-easy about it.“You are very sure of yourself, aren’t.