Pat turned to check the progress of the facial recognition software that was running on the servers. The progress was slow because of how difficult it was to render a face from under such a perfectly made mask, and Pat turned away from it again as Mark spoke up.
"I'll also need you to do sothing else for . When I had that eting with Salazar, he tried to get to join the NSA again, but his thod was different from what Jas used. Jas was asking to join, but Salazar was practically threatening to join the NSA. I don't think he can be trusted, he's definitely planning sothing. Can you help find out more about him?"
Pat humd as he turned his swivel chair around again. Just how shady did soone have to be to get Mark's attention like this? Pat started to type out on his computer and he grabbed Salazar's public records from the governnt database. He picked up a small squeezeball at the side as he started to read off the important parts while playing with it
"Orphaned at 12, joined the army at eighteen, and survived through two military tours to Afghanistan before leaving the army when he was thirty, and then joining the NSA after the Armageddon attack. No wife, no children, no relatives. He's the sort of person who ends up as a ghost mber of the black ops or sothing. What the hell is with this shady-ass bio?"
Pat did not hide his surprise as he read through Salazar's bio and Mark was silent as he committed everything to mory. Mark was already sure that Salazar was going to be an issue, so Mark was going to try to get rid of him before things could get out of hand. But finding a way to get rid of soone who was so deeply intertwined with the governnt was difficult.
Especially since Mark was technically just a child and no one would believe him if he went and told them that Salazar was evil.
What could he possibly say? I saw his affiliation through my True Sight skill so I am sure that he is evil. That was stupid and no one would believe it.
Since asking for Salazar to be put in jail imdiately was out of the question, Mark had to stay one step ahead of Salazar and then catch Salazar in the act. That way there would be no doubt and Mark could send that bastard away.
"Should I put a few surveillance caras on him? I don't think he will be too much trouble to track. Governnt officials are usually in the open a lot."
"Yeah, thanks. I don't know what he is going to do, but just keep an eye on him until you find sothing unusual."
"You seem certain that he will do sothing."
Mark glared at the image of Salazar on the screen.
"You didn't see what I saw. That bastard is definitely going to try sothing. The only question is when."
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"Well, your girlfriend isn't normal, that's for sure."
Mark and Arit were sitting on the couch in the middle of the living room while Jeanne spoke to them. There was so ruckus echoing from inside Pat's room, but everyone just ignored it as she spoke about what the results of the diagnosis were.
Jeanne tried her best to explain it using simple terms that normal people who weren't doctors would understand, but she still found it a little difficult since Arit's condition was so special.
"You don't have to be afraid that she will suddenly lose her mind and soone else will take over, I looked over her mind and I can tell that it is all her in there, but that doesn't an there aren't any side effects from the… I don't even know what to call this. Psychological rge? Well, yes, whatever this is, there are so side effects from it.
For one thing, she possesses almost no moral restraints now and this allows her subconscious mind to speak to her like it is a different person entirely. Sothing like having a split personality. They are both her, but there is still a massive difference between the both of them.
"I guess I can call it a tamorphosis of sorts. Arit and QUEEN are no longer two different entities. You can say that they rged and they are now one entity with two distinct personalities in one body. It's almost like being a psychopath honestly. Your girlfriend isn't mad, she's just crazy."
Jeanne tried to think of a more dical term to use in describing what happened to Arit, but she just couldn't. Arit told Jeanne how the QUEEN corrupted her and also how she was constantly hearing QUEEN's voice in her head, so Jeanne was sure that this was a psychological issue, not a physical one.
But that really didn't help Mark at all and Mark just raised a brow as he waited for Jeanne to continue. They didn't just co here to find out if Arit was crazy or not. Hearing voices in your head is one indication that you are at least a little crazy and Mark was not surprised by that information.
They ca to see if there was a way to reverse the problem or to get rid of the voices once and for all.
Mark asked Jeanne if there was anything more and Jeanne scratched her hair with a sigh.
"There really isn't any way for the two of them to be separated from each other. At least, there isn't any way that I know of. You know what my ability is, I'm sure, and you know it is pretty versatile when it cos down to healing people. But I can't heal Arit because as far as her body is concerned, there is nothing wrong with her.
The voice in her head is a part of her, so trying to get rid of it would be like trying to take her heart out of her body. She'll drop dead."
Jeanne carried out a lot of analysis on Arit, and after everything, she was certain that there was no way that Arit could be separated from the QUEEN. The two of them were permanently joined together and it was only through sheer luck that Arit was able to take control of the body instead of QUEEN.
Jeanne rembered how Arit almost attacked her at the start of the diagnosis and even though she was still a bit put off by it, she couldn't bla Arit for that either. That reaction was not sothing that Arit could have stopped even if she wanted to. It is the sa way your leg jerks when they hit your knee with a small hamr. It was an involuntary reaction from Arit for self-defense.
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