Page 435 of Chaos has a Name
“We are running it through CODIS, but if it’s Native American, we might not have anything to connect to—unless the person is a criminal and served time. We’ve found that Nativestend not to get DNA done. They don’t need to. They are well aware of their ethnicity and tend to not mate out.”
Well, no shock there.
They said that earlier.
Timothy had been all about keeping it on the rez, but then again, he’d had a master plan.
“What about the victim’s clothing?” she asked.
He was ready for her.
“They were washed. The blood was processed. So after he bled out, and his clothing was removed, the things he’d been wearing were washed and folded.”
Chris agreed with him.
“They likely wanted to make sure all trace was eradicated,” he stated.
Well, no shock there.
That was a norm in her world.
Before she could ask anything else, her Goth head tech was curious.
“Does she follow you around?” he asked.
Elizabeth blinked.
“MATE?”
He nodded.
“She’s neat. Can we all use her? Like if I ask her to do something, will she actually comply?”
MATE hopped off the desk.
“Comply? I’m a very fast, powerful computer. I don’t have to comply. I have free will.”
Chris laughed when people in the room, the smart people, looked uncomfortable. That tended to be the reaction more often than not.
“She has parameters,” he said. “Free will, MATE, is a matter of perspective.”
She stood there.
“I mean, I can’t kill anyone, but I haven’t gotten a body yet,” she said, walking around Ben to freak him out. It was her normal schtick.
And it didn’t work.
“You can have it. I like MATE. She’s awesome,” he said, grinning. “Can she hang out sometime?”
Elizabeth glanced over at the man, and then, shook her head.
“She’s not my daughter. She’s my AI. She’s alsoVERYexpensive, so hell no. She’s not‘hanging out at your pad, dude’,” she stated.
Elizabeth focused on her husband.
“Christopher?”
He got it.
