checked the Italian–English dictionary: it meant key . Leoncjusz had the key.
This was going to take some time. She’d give anything for Google Translate right now. She skimmed through the rest of the page. Its contents seemed mundane. She turned to the previous page and found a word right after her name that she didn’t recognize: defekt . Did it mean to defect, to work for the other side? She checked the Italian–German dictionary. It meant difettoso . She checked for the English translation. Defective .
She continued with the rest of the paragraph. On her sheet of paper, the meaning was beginning to take shape.
Another operative became defective . . . field . . . night and . . . killed. Denton dismisses me . . . service. Just as we planned. I am relieved, but I do not show it.
She turned to the previous page. If Adamicz had mentioned his true intentions anywhere, it might be in an earlier entry. With both dictionaries open, she got to work translating.
Sophia . . . operation . . . routine assessment. Precise changes. Sophia’s behavior . . . normal . . . tampered . . . neopsyche . . . under stress Sophia . . . shift to archeopsyche . . . performance . . . and I . . . held responsible. Cecilia McLoughlin stages . . . death. And . . . part of our plan.
Sophia checked her watch. She had another thirty minutes. It wasn’t enough time to translate the whole journal. And it would be a while before she would get another chance. She had to translate what she needed now. She flipped to the previous page.
I am scared . . . sleep . . . not wake up. Denton . . . is he waiting . . . us out? Or will . . . and torture . . . answers? I realize . . . belly of the beast . . . stay brave.
Trials . . . operative . . . routine assessment. Possible . . . suggest . . . Cecilia McLoughlin . . . Benito Montoya . . . operative . . . in mind. She . . . six on . . .
One string of words caught her interest. Posthypnotischen Suggestibilität Index . The German was so close to English she didn’t need the dictionaries.
She continued translating the rest of the sentence.
Easier to deprogram . . . our cause due to . . . betrayal . . . violation . . . Fifth Column.
She licked her finger, then thought again and wiped her saliva away before turning to the previous page, where she saw Chimäre Vektors written three times.
McLoughlin . . . confident. I fear . . . get caught . . . thought everything . . . well. Benito Montoya . . . Chimera vectors . . . impossible . . . circumstance . . . high security and of course Denton’s . . . Chimera vectors. McLoughlin . . . lock it up for now . . . back later . . . lower security. She . . . encrypt the Chimera vectors . . . encryption key.
Sophia froze on the word Schlüssel . She checked the dictionary, translated the complete sentence.
She plans to encrypt the Chimera vectors and use part of her DNA as the encryption key.
Sophia realized she was holding her breath. Inhaling quickly, she continued translating.
But . . . Cecilia McLoughlin . . . back to the facility . . . very risky. I cannot . . . how we do this. Cecilia McLoughlin . . . of this too. She asked me . . . operative as the key instead.
This had to be important. Backtracking, she translated every missing word.
She asked me today if we could use an operative as the key instead .
Sophia leaned back in her chair. ‘I am the key.’
Back another page. She had to translate faster if she was going to get anywhere.
My . . . offering . . . to me. I suggest to Cecilia McLoughlin . . . destroy the Chimera vectors. But she . . . idea. She wants to . . . against the Fifth Column. She . . . resistance called the Akhana . . .
There was no entry for Akhana in the dictionary. Perhaps it was an English word. She continued reading.
. . . nothing about. This . . . more complicated. Does . . . really exist
This was going to take some time. She’d give anything for Google Translate right now. She skimmed through the rest of the page. Its contents seemed mundane. She turned to the previous page and found a word right after her name that she didn’t recognize: defekt . Did it mean to defect, to work for the other side? She checked the Italian–German dictionary. It meant difettoso . She checked for the English translation. Defective .
She continued with the rest of the paragraph. On her sheet of paper, the meaning was beginning to take shape.
Another operative became defective . . . field . . . night and . . . killed. Denton dismisses me . . . service. Just as we planned. I am relieved, but I do not show it.
She turned to the previous page. If Adamicz had mentioned his true intentions anywhere, it might be in an earlier entry. With both dictionaries open, she got to work translating.
Sophia . . . operation . . . routine assessment. Precise changes. Sophia’s behavior . . . normal . . . tampered . . . neopsyche . . . under stress Sophia . . . shift to archeopsyche . . . performance . . . and I . . . held responsible. Cecilia McLoughlin stages . . . death. And . . . part of our plan.
Sophia checked her watch. She had another thirty minutes. It wasn’t enough time to translate the whole journal. And it would be a while before she would get another chance. She had to translate what she needed now. She flipped to the previous page.
I am scared . . . sleep . . . not wake up. Denton . . . is he waiting . . . us out? Or will . . . and torture . . . answers? I realize . . . belly of the beast . . . stay brave.
Trials . . . operative . . . routine assessment. Possible . . . suggest . . . Cecilia McLoughlin . . . Benito Montoya . . . operative . . . in mind. She . . . six on . . .
One string of words caught her interest. Posthypnotischen Suggestibilität Index . The German was so close to English she didn’t need the dictionaries.
She continued translating the rest of the sentence.
Easier to deprogram . . . our cause due to . . . betrayal . . . violation . . . Fifth Column.
She licked her finger, then thought again and wiped her saliva away before turning to the previous page, where she saw Chimäre Vektors written three times.
McLoughlin . . . confident. I fear . . . get caught . . . thought everything . . . well. Benito Montoya . . . Chimera vectors . . . impossible . . . circumstance . . . high security and of course Denton’s . . . Chimera vectors. McLoughlin . . . lock it up for now . . . back later . . . lower security. She . . . encrypt the Chimera vectors . . . encryption key.
Sophia froze on the word Schlüssel . She checked the dictionary, translated the complete sentence.
She plans to encrypt the Chimera vectors and use part of her DNA as the encryption key.
Sophia realized she was holding her breath. Inhaling quickly, she continued translating.
But . . . Cecilia McLoughlin . . . back to the facility . . . very risky. I cannot . . . how we do this. Cecilia McLoughlin . . . of this too. She asked me . . . operative as the key instead.
This had to be important. Backtracking, she translated every missing word.
She asked me today if we could use an operative as the key instead .
Sophia leaned back in her chair. ‘I am the key.’
Back another page. She had to translate faster if she was going to get anywhere.
My . . . offering . . . to me. I suggest to Cecilia McLoughlin . . . destroy the Chimera vectors. But she . . . idea. She wants to . . . against the Fifth Column. She . . . resistance called the Akhana . . .
There was no entry for Akhana in the dictionary. Perhaps it was an English word. She continued reading.
. . . nothing about. This . . . more complicated. Does . . . really exist
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