Chapter 4

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"How much link time have you logged?"
It was the first thing Grace asked us when we entered the link room. Norm sat on his link chair and placed the sensors on expertly. "Five hundred and twenty hours." He said in reporse to Grace's question. I sat in mine, "Three hundred." I said. Grace looked to Jake, "And you?"
"Like -- an hour." Was his only reply.
Grace groaned, "Tell me you're joking." Jake said nothing more as he rolled himself to his own link chamber and began hauling himself in as Grace made a move to help him in. But, Jake looked at her,
"Don't! I got this."
Grace put her hands up in mock surrender as Jake pulled himself into the unit. "So you just figured you'd come out here to the most hostile environment known to man, with no training of any kind, and, see how it went? What, exactly, was going through your head."
Jake met her eyes with a defiant glare. "Maybe I was just tired of doctors telling me what I couldn't do." Was his reply as he lay into the gel lining. I follow the motion, as does Norm. Grace looks to me and Jake, him more over than me. "Just relax and let your mind go blank. That shouldn't be to hard for you." Jake went to say something but, Grace was one step ahead as the link hood was slammed shut. Mine and Norms shut to, all I heard Max was;
"Initiate links."
Than everything went fuzzy.

I almost don't want to open my eyes as my ears twicth. I hear Max over the speaker. "Take it slow, Jake. We need to check your motor controls. Try touching your fingertips together--" Max's words fell on deaf ears as Jake was just starting at his legs, not a minute after, he soon is standing. I now open my eyes, Jake is smiling so brightly I almost laugh. His tail, on the hand, takes him by surprise. The med techs try to get him to sit down. He looked to Max with a laugh and grin.
"Easy Jake, I need you to sit down --" he soon took a step, the wires pulling taut before he pulls them off. Max looked at him with wide eyes. "Jake! Wait, we have to run some tests --"

But he's already out the door.

Well shit, Grace won't be to happy when she sees him and learning what happened.

And Norm just went after him. . . . 

"Skxawngs"

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