terminal and quickly navigated through the DTI screens until he found the search page. He typed in "ParaDim" and waited. Would it be different this time? Would it show entries for resonance projects, maybe an explanation of what a resonance wave was?
It didn't.
But it did show two hits:
ParaDim Phase Two: General project overview and tender information.
ParaDim: Census Project.
Census Project? Graham stared at the screen. He'd heard that name before. In one of Annalise's messages. Access the Census logs .
He clicked on the Census Project and shuffled closer. A new screen appeared. A project overview and several sections of technical specifications.
The Census Project, jointly funded by ParaDim and Her Majesty's Government and based in London, is seeking partner organizations to help expand its highly successful and recently completed pilot project into a fully operational global model.
The Census Project is part of ParaDim Phase Two. Information on family and medical history will be gathered, collated and fed into the ParaDim model. The Census Project seeks to identify people with natural immunities to various diseases and conditions.
Information gathered will also be invaluable to the many other linked ParaDim research projects. As in Phase One, partner organizations will benefit through the distribution of shares in ParaDim Inc., details of which can be found on page 4 of the tender document.
Graham read the overview again. What could any of that have to do with him? There was nothing in his family or medical background that could possibly interest anyone. He'd had all the usual childhood diseases and had never been exposed to anything exotic.
It didn't make any sense.
He returned to the search results page and clicked on ParaDim Phase Two.
ParaDim Inc. is seeking partner organizations to help in the collection, collation and processing of data for ParaDim Phase Two. After the phenomenal success of Phase One, ParaDim is expanding its model into Health and the Humanities.
Data collected during Phase Two will be used to create the data reservoir required to power ParaDim Phase Three.
Many of the Phase Two projects are joint sponsored by national governments. Appendix H gives details of countries offering grants and tax incentives for ParaDim partner organizations.
As with Phase One, partner organizations will share in the success of the project by the allocation of shares in ParaDim Inc. This will be at a reduced level, reflecting the lower profitability of the Phase Two work. However, significant breakthroughs in the areas of health and insurance are forecast and Phase Two partners will be given special consideration when assessing candidates for Phase Three.
Pages and pages of technical specifications followed. Graham scrolled back to the top and logged out.
* * *
By four o'clock, Graham was having second thoughts. He'd meet Annalise another time. He wasn't cut out for clandestine meetings and even less for giving people the slip.
But she'd told him to be there. And doing what other people told him was one of the tenets that paved his path of least resistance through life.
He was torn and becoming more so by the minute. Why couldn't Annalise slip him a note? Why all the cloak and dagger?
He paced the fifth floor, tried to bury himself in work and in-trays but it wouldn't go away. The fear, the foreboding, the certainty that something bad was going to happen. Didn't she realize what she was asking him to do?
Even if he didn't make a scene at the tube station—which he was certain he would—she was asking him to break his journey home. A journey that had become a ritual. Seventeen years of treading the same path at the same time.
Ignore ritual and bad things were certain to follow.
He'd broken his journey home on Friday and, within an hour, a girl had unravelled in his hallway.
What would happen tonight? He wasn't just breaking his journey, he was going to
It didn't.
But it did show two hits:
ParaDim Phase Two: General project overview and tender information.
ParaDim: Census Project.
Census Project? Graham stared at the screen. He'd heard that name before. In one of Annalise's messages. Access the Census logs .
He clicked on the Census Project and shuffled closer. A new screen appeared. A project overview and several sections of technical specifications.
The Census Project, jointly funded by ParaDim and Her Majesty's Government and based in London, is seeking partner organizations to help expand its highly successful and recently completed pilot project into a fully operational global model.
The Census Project is part of ParaDim Phase Two. Information on family and medical history will be gathered, collated and fed into the ParaDim model. The Census Project seeks to identify people with natural immunities to various diseases and conditions.
Information gathered will also be invaluable to the many other linked ParaDim research projects. As in Phase One, partner organizations will benefit through the distribution of shares in ParaDim Inc., details of which can be found on page 4 of the tender document.
Graham read the overview again. What could any of that have to do with him? There was nothing in his family or medical background that could possibly interest anyone. He'd had all the usual childhood diseases and had never been exposed to anything exotic.
It didn't make any sense.
He returned to the search results page and clicked on ParaDim Phase Two.
ParaDim Inc. is seeking partner organizations to help in the collection, collation and processing of data for ParaDim Phase Two. After the phenomenal success of Phase One, ParaDim is expanding its model into Health and the Humanities.
Data collected during Phase Two will be used to create the data reservoir required to power ParaDim Phase Three.
Many of the Phase Two projects are joint sponsored by national governments. Appendix H gives details of countries offering grants and tax incentives for ParaDim partner organizations.
As with Phase One, partner organizations will share in the success of the project by the allocation of shares in ParaDim Inc. This will be at a reduced level, reflecting the lower profitability of the Phase Two work. However, significant breakthroughs in the areas of health and insurance are forecast and Phase Two partners will be given special consideration when assessing candidates for Phase Three.
Pages and pages of technical specifications followed. Graham scrolled back to the top and logged out.
* * *
By four o'clock, Graham was having second thoughts. He'd meet Annalise another time. He wasn't cut out for clandestine meetings and even less for giving people the slip.
But she'd told him to be there. And doing what other people told him was one of the tenets that paved his path of least resistance through life.
He was torn and becoming more so by the minute. Why couldn't Annalise slip him a note? Why all the cloak and dagger?
He paced the fifth floor, tried to bury himself in work and in-trays but it wouldn't go away. The fear, the foreboding, the certainty that something bad was going to happen. Didn't she realize what she was asking him to do?
Even if he didn't make a scene at the tube station—which he was certain he would—she was asking him to break his journey home. A journey that had become a ritual. Seventeen years of treading the same path at the same time.
Ignore ritual and bad things were certain to follow.
He'd broken his journey home on Friday and, within an hour, a girl had unravelled in his hallway.
What would happen tonight? He wasn't just breaking his journey, he was going to
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