Mindtease

Chapter 31

"Are we there yet?" Josh asked rhetorically from the passenger seat to Kirk.

"Noppers," Kirk answered, intently focused on driving.

The two friends had check out of their hotel, and Kirk had pointedly insisted on driving. Josh had relented, seeing the intensity of purpose in Kirk's eyes.

"So where again are we going?" Josh asked for the umpteenth time.

"I don't know specifically," Kirk answered, "it's more I feel...have driven to it...before...I really don't know how to explain it."

"I get you Kirk," Josh said. "But I just...well what town, what exit, and how far away are we?"

"That I do not know for certain."

"But what?"

"But...I know it's along this interstate, a small Podunk hamlet of a town, with the place along the exit...somewhere."

"Over the rainbow?"

"Not quite...although I'm know there is no pot of gold at the end of it..."

"What about a leprechaun?"

"Maybe..."

Josh snorted and chuckled, shaking his head, and Kirk cracked a smile as they drove onward.

"Oh, why didn't you bring our laptop Kirky?"

"Can't you guess Joshster?"

"Guess...I want to know...inquiring minds and all that."

"Elementary, my kiss-me-on-the-cheek-without-any-tongue friend...a present for your friends from uncle."

"Shit. Those fuckers from uncle are not my friends...and a present?"

"Yes. A present...they should find the laptop...well nothing to go on...and a message."

"Message?"

"Yeah. Guess what we're doing...because they will do a computer network forensics of the sites I visited online for research...by leaving a erased and reformatted notebook computer they will put a lot of emphasis on it...and we're letting them know they're tracking us...so left them a clue."

"Erased and formatted the hard drive...with pornography. My favorite was the Japanese squid anime porn, and those that got hot by being vomited on."

"Eyeew, that's gross. So then they check out the network stuff you visited..."

"But I visited a lot of sites...I wrote a simple script that randomly visited many sites...most of them porn, some related to the specific search. Have to add some plausibility to the implausible."

"You have some iron balls Kirk," Josh commented. "But what will they do?"

"I dunno. But I expect those cocksuckers will be watching us, waiting to see what we do...and we can at the right moment use it to our advantage...somehow."

"Yuppers...and you're making this up as you go along too..."

"Well if we don't have a plan, just...rules of thumb, heuristics to go by...the jackholes at uncle cannot so easily anticipate what we are doing...and it gives us some wiggle room as events unfold."

"Clever...a plan of not having a plan...instead of planning to plan."

"Yeppers. You're the next fucking Einstein Josh, figuring that out all by yourself..."

Josh laughed, and put the seat back, relaxing...it would be a long drive to their unknown, enigmatic destination...and slowly drifted into slumber.

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