Monday 4 February 2008

A story fragment

For your enjoyment today, a fragment of prose that never had a surrounding story:
"He'd bio-encrypted the data into messenger bacteria, and then hidden that inside the lymph nodes of his cat, there to wait until it was needed again. It was dangerous data, he knew, but he also took some pleasure in the kind of labyrinthine measures he'd taken to hide it. It made him feel like more than a two-bit cracker. Now he was a super-villain, complete with maniacal laugh.
"
Mokalus of Borg


PS - You must guess that he's not yet out of his teens.
PPS - And that he doesn't trust good encryption.

2 comments:

Erin Marie said...

And, he's not really all that attached to his cat. Maybe he's just not a cat person.

John said...

I imagined the procedure as harmless to the cat, but perhaps a good development later in the story would be for investigators to notice the cat looking a little ill, and subsequently taking it in for investigation.