Dark*Matter: Discovery, The First Mission


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Larry IMs Cade back with "I don't want the parent's suspicious about the vapors. Remember that we're supposed to be downplaying any weird events even if they're true."
 


Shayuri said:
"You're a bit warm. Why don't you take your shoes off and get into bed? We'll have your mom come in okay? Oh...and Carol? Thanks."

"Your welcome," Carol said quietly, as she obediently climbed into her bed. She was asleep in under a minute.
 
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Im to Larry: I know, and if she was exposed to them, then we can baffle him with mumbo jumbo about gases, chemical interactions, and the human body. Finding out if she was exposed to anything is just the easy part. ;)

oO Poor kiddeo Oo thinks Cade as he watches the scene with Nick, Meredith and the lil' girl, however he doesn't say anything yet, letting them both handle it. Plus, potentially, her parents can see much of it on the observation monitor Cade had setup for them.

When Diego mentions the MiB, Cade trains one of the cameras on him and tries to get the best close-up of the MiB that he can. Once done, Cade will e-mail a copy of it to his Hoffmann e-mail, as well as to 'Z', just to be safe and have non-local copies of the images.

"Good catch, Diego," says Cade quietly.

Although Cade doesn't IM Nick, having seen that he closed his system, he does see that Nick was checking up on the address, like he was, and he also notes down the same conclusions, locally.
 

Meredith gives Nick a look, and says, "I think that's it for now. Lets get everyone together and review this before we start talking about how and why. I'll go talk to the parents..."

She emerges from the bedroom and weaves through the house until she finds Carol's parents. There, she gives them a nod and says, "Despite what you might think, if you were watching, I think this was a very promising first interview. She did exactly what we needed her to, which was display this unusual 'symptom,' and she did it right away. Now, we have a couple of options for how to proceed from here. What we'd like to do is leave some of the monitoring equipment in place, so we can get some measurements of her temperature and brain activity while she's asleep and so on, not to mention capture anymore episodes she may have while we're absent. If you're not comfortable with that, we completely understand, and we'll dismantle it all before we leave."

"We'll need to go over all the sensor data in some detail and consult references before we have a clear idea of what might be going on here, although we already have a few theories. With that in mind, how do you feel about getting back together again sometime tomorrow afternoon so we can share with you what our results are?"
 

"That seems a bit, well, extreme," Wilna says, after Meredith's proposal. "Are you sure that it would be absolutely necessary? We don't mind recording what she says, but we're not sure about the rest."
 

"Well the recordings of her sayings would be extremely useful. With enough information I'm sure our specialists can come up with were she's coming up with these things. In any case, I don't want you to worry. From what we can tell, this is most likely a case of a bright little girl with an over active imagination. Think of this as an extreme version of a child having an imaginary friend. It isn't at all that unusual for very talented children." This whole spiel was delivered by Larry in a proffesional tone, with just the right amount of smiling to put the parent's at ease. "In any case, we'll probably be returning in a couple of days, just to dot the i's and cross the tee's."
 

"All right," John says, nodding. He's completely bought Larry's spiel. "Thank you. Once this gets to the media, I certainly hope it'll stop all the lunatics from dropping by, wanting to study her precognitive ability."
 

"Have you had many of these people coming by? We get a lot of them at the office too. I think we collect pictures of the more annoying ones, so that they don't keep bothering us. I'll see if there's anything we can do." Looking at Meredith, he adds. "We ready boss? You want us to start loading the van?"
 

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