??Well you had one in your lab,? the man said with a bit of disdain.?I?ll have to dig at it to verify but this virus is starting to looklike it origin...ated at Blake?s terminal.??How does that make Blake a devisor and not just really good withcomputers?? the blond demanded with worry in his voice. Since he wasthe one responsible for the majority of their hiring the blame was oncemore starting to shift in his direction.?Because this virus is fundamentally alive,? the former hackerexplained as. His voice seemed to excite the guardians more as they poured through the doorway just behind them. Their shrieking ratcheted up a notch.Jorie took the lead. Larger chunks were falling out of the ceiling and he had to dodge a few of them on the ground. A good size piece caught him on top of his head and Jorie paused for a moment, stunned. The guardians were boiling in the tunnel behind them and they were shrieking. More afraid of the guardians than the collapsing walls, Jorie started flee. "No, or at least I don't think so," I answered. "I thought she was with you."I glanced up at Carrie."Is Kasey here?"She nodded."She is in her room," Carrie said. "Thinking about things." Oh, yeah," I said to Kelly. "She's here." Is everything OK over there?" she asked."Not as far as I can see," I replied. "Look, Kasey said something completely out of line and I sort of snapped." Good," my ex-wife said. "I hope you really lit into her."I was silent."I almost hit her, Kelly," I confessed. Then I. ” I did as I was told, pushing my behind towards him, feeling his hand running over my flesh. “Just a few faint marks. Nothing disfiguring.”“I’m glad, Master.”“Glad?”“I would not want to displease you by being disfigured.”He gave a little disbelieving laugh. I suppose it was difficult for him to understand that a girl could say such a thing!“Do you know it was I who got you off a flogging?” he asked.“I... I suspected it, Master...”“But I didn’t realise they were going to give you such a.