I approached Nicole when she was coming in from the grocery store. I knelt down in front of her and offered up my collar to her with both hands. Somew...at taken aback, she took the collar before she realized what it was and read the note attached to it. The note said simply, "Sally will help you."I had bowed down with my head to the floor, so I did not see what she did after that, but apparently Nicole had tried to fit the collar on her own neck, then around her waist before going to Sally. All. If you’ve got one of the apps I worked on, the ones with the bugs you don’t see, then I know. All those zombies walking the streets with their faces stuck in their phones? I know.I don’t just fix other people’s apps, I wrote my own. To sell? No, I give my app away for free, isn’t that nice of me? It’s so free you don’t even know you’ve got it. It’s hidden on your phone and every minute you spend looking at your phone you’re looking at my app as well. I call it SHA-1: “Subliminal Hypnosis. "I can make a plan that will get your stones to New York and odds are 50/50 the bad guys will leave you alone when they realize they have been duped. They may or may not come back next month to try again. This plan has an 80% chance of saving your stones, and an 80% chance of ending this threat. That is if it all works out as I expect it to work out. If not there is a a 20% you and I will end up dead. So now that you know the long and short of it, how do you want to play it?" I asked."I'm not. I had to unleash them. I had to pour them into my Faoril. I had to please her and love her and make her scream my name into the night air.I burst through the side door into the courtyard. The stables were nearby. The music grew to a dull whisper, the night air wonderfully cool on my skin. The day had been warmed, but the wind blowing down from the towering Lesh-Ke Mountains to the south brought such relief.“Oh, Thrak, I’m so wet,” moaned Faoril. “I’m dripping down my thighs.”I set her down and.