[GT] Stay Close [The Agent From D.I.S.O. #2]

#1: Of Choice And Change

[First Part: http://my.w.tt/UiNb/Yic9xnbo5E ]

There are many ways to change the world.

Sometimes, it's small coincidences that lead to big revolutions - a scientist with a sweet tooth in just the right place at the right time, discovering that the chocolate bar in his lab-coat had mysteriously melted, and a generation later we can't even imagine how we ever managed without microwave technology.

At other times, things change with a loud 'bang!', such as when an ill-conceived experiment gone wrong sets in motion a chain of events and eventually two realities come crashing into one, breaking a single species into two; still the same, yet all of a sudden a seemingly unbridgeable difference between them.

Sometimes, the change is slow and hard won, like when all must fight and work to build a peaceful, productive society that seems impossible to create, and to establish equality between those, who could not possibly ever be equal. That is the kind of change, that takes decades to achieve.

And sometimes, the change creeps up on you, an incident here, a headline there, a small shift among the voting public, and one day you wake up to a world that is completely different from the one your parents knew, ever stricter apartheid where only a few years ago there was unity, and you wonder how it is you never noticed.

The one and only thing, that these changes have in common is that, while sometimes you might contribute, they generally happen without your personal choosing or consent.

No one asked if you thought the digital revolution would be a good idea before inventing the technology, and when during my childhood the first separation-laws took effect, no one sought my permission.

Of course, we all wish to change the world through our existence, we all hope that our lives and work may make a small contribution to the 'big picture' and help improve the society we live in, but we don't truly expect to ever be in a place where what we do and decide would have an immediate, large scale impact on the way things are.

At least, I never did.

So, suddenly finding myself in a position where what I did might make or break a scientific revolution with the potential to completely change the world as I knew it, came as something of a shock.

And yet, even the drastic changes to society I might help bring about paled in comparison to what a certain human by name of Robin Strakovsky was going to do to my life.

My name is Seth Holden, I am 18.65 meters tall and twenty-four years of age.
I have been working for the G-Branch of the National Bureau for Police and Security's Department for Inter-Species Operations in the capacity as combat specialist and protection expert for the past five years.

This is how we changed the world:

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Hello you guys~
I hope you'll enjoy the second short story from the D.I.S.O. Universe!
It's not much (even counting the next chapter, which I'll be posting in a minute), but I'm really glad I managed to finally write anything at all.

I've been having a bad case of the Writer's You-Know-What (not going to spell that hateful, disgusting word out here),
which is why the story about Elliot has not been updated yet (I've got huge chunks of the chapter finished, but I still need to write bits to connect them, which was totally beyond me during the You-Know-What)
and also why I haven't caught up with answering comments and reading the updates to your stories yet (so many new chapters everywhere *-*)

As usual, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the stuff I've come up with
(and I totally haven't been binge-watching bad anime for inspiration - no S̶e̶n̶s̶e̶i Sir, not me!)

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