The Islamic Brotherhoods did not react well when Chloe finally appeared in a real, physical form beside the Napoleon she had brought to France. They’d been trying to kill her since they bombed Old Paris, and she’d made herself a major nuisance to them ever since. So when they finally saw her, in public, easy to target, they took the bait. If any of them thought she might be a trap, it wasn’t the ones that went gunning for her. She had numerous robotic bodies operating by then, each one running a copy of her main personality, and some were truly exceptional combatants. She scored an impressive number of Brotherhood kills in the days following her public unveiling in France.
We’ve woken up from our Turkey Comas. We’ve survived Black Friday. Now it is time for Cyber Monday and all the times that follow it. We’ve entered the Christmas Season, powered by Target, Walmart, and Toys R Us. Oh. Wait. Anyways, this is the greatest shopping season of the year, powered by the idea of giving gifts to other people.
I ask that you consider what you give and who you give it to. Do they really want it? Or would something else work just as well? Can you really give it? Don’t go into debt for a gift. Be careful what you give. But also try to give something that means something. Yes, it isn’t always easy to find the right gift. But don’t worry. You still have a month to figure it out if you haven’t already.
Tick Tock.
Merry Christmas Season.
This Thanksgiving Day weekend I am thankful that I have a roof over my head and food on my table. I can eat when and where I want. And I can write stories and people will buy them. That’s an awful lot of things to be thankful for in my mind.
This Thanksgiving Day weekend I am thankful that I have friends and family nearby. I ate dinner with both over the last two weekends. I got to spend time with them and talk to them. I played games and watched good movies. It’s the best thing in the world to be able to spend time with people you like. To talk with them and enjoy doing things together with them. It’s a good reason to be thankful, I think.
When the man history would call Napoleon the Fourth arrived at Charles de Gaul airport, Chloe walked off the plane arm in arm with him with a shiny new robotic body that could pass as utterly human. She waved to the cameras and her fellow Frenchmen while bouncing down the stairs in her pink jacket and purple dress. Napoleon walked down the stairs in a black suit with a sedate and measured pace. She walked up to the microphone and shouted “Vive la France!” and the crowd went wild. He gave a measured speech calling for law and order and peace in France, and the crowd grew far more earnest. He gained the undying loyalty of the French with that speech and the actions that soon followed.
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