Book 3 of the Tugsten Series
Following Season Five of The 100.
Ranking
#19 in engineer 05/05/2020
#18 bellamyblake 10/12/2019
#17 in clarkegriffin 02/11/2019
#9 in seasonfive 11/03/2020
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"Engineering humor. I forget your Neanderthal mind never understood it."
"I got it and for a split second I enjoyed it."
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For the next few hours I remain in my semi operational lab. After a few years I made a request to Octavia which she granted with ease. She knew I'd been climbing up the walls so she allowed me space to just do my own thing.
With Monty on one computer and me on the other, the pair of us work on breaking through the encryption on the mothership. "God", I murmur to Monty focused on the job at hand "My brain hasn't been stretched like this in years."
"Don't tell me you missed the mental strain", Monty murmurs back, just as focused as I.
"Some people go to a gym. I like to solve problems", I reply with a small smile before I'm drawn back into the computer. My fingers moving in a flurry over the keyboard I try every trick I know to break the encryption. With no way to sneak around the their firewall systems we have no other choice but to continue trying to break through on our own. It's like trying to dig through concrete with a plastic spoon.
Slow.
"Are we going to talk about the elephant in the room?"
"Considering there is no elephant would the correct answer be no?"
