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the Dark Ages. In addition, it's predicted to hit in a few days, not the months Hadrian's been telling everyone. He's known it for quite some time, and while he's been providing doctored reports to the Unified Defense System, he's been making contingency plans."
    "What kind of contingency plans?" Jonah asked.
    "He's recruiting controllers from other countries, mostly third world, with the promise of food and medicines for them and their families. People are signing up by the thousands, and Hadrian's got his so-called specialized teams performing hatchet job implants on the unsuspecting recruits. Not the standard controller type, but something more like a control chip, and setting them up in secret camps with dummy computer banks. They think they're training. In reality, Hadrian's using the comps to program his foot soldiers."
    Mary saw Niko mouth "Told you so." to Ursula out of the corner of her eye, but didn't want to interrupt Dex to question what Niko meant.
    Dex continued. "We're losing more controllers to brain blasts than we anticipated. Especially the stim junkies who are popping illegal A to stave off the headaches caused by the hangovers, but not enough to justify the numbers Hadrian is recruiting as replacements. We've concluded that the only reason Hadrian could want thousands of warm bodies is for an army. Possibly, to set himself as a leader. Or, he could split the numbers. Use part of them as a security force, the others for reconstruction after the wave. Either way, we're screwed."
    The spark of anger in Jonah's eyes changed to understanding, then belief. He turned his attention to Corene and asked the question Mary had been wondering. "Corene, did Stran verify this?"
    Stran had survived the brainwave transformation. About half of everyone who survives ends up with some sort of psychic power. Some get it right away, full power, and some, like Stran, have to wait to get the full effects. He gets impressions of people's thoughts. Their true thoughts and feelings. Thing is, it's not like mind reading, he has to touch the person to read them, and you just don't walk up to Dex and shake his hand or slap him on the back.
    "Yes. I stood next to him when he touched Dex."
    "Good enough." He turned to Dex. "How can you help Mary?"
    "The aspirin she just received contains nanites which are programmed to repair the brain damage. Once we have an agreement, I'll activate them when she starts blasting."
    "Is it safe?" Mary asked.
    "Hadrian used them."
    The thought of Hadrian with psychic powers frightened her more than anything else she'd heard tonight. "Did he go psychic? What's his power?"
    "He did, and he won't say. But I believe it's some freaky powerful ability. He must have had some strong, latent ability, because he started suffering the effects early on, almost as soon as the energy web activated. It didn't take the scientists long to figure out that the abnormal light waves caused by the energy web triggered the changes in the brain."
    "Bullshit," Jonah interrupted. "No way they developed nanites to combat brain blast that early."
    "No, they didn't. As soon as Hadrian realized what was happening, he stayed in the bunkers as much as possible and used sun lamps to try to slow the effects." Dex leaned back, crossed his legs. "Apparently, it helped, because it gave them enough time to develop and program the nanites. The brain blast was still pretty wicked, though, and more than a few of us hoped the technology would fail."
    Jonah tensed, and dug into the arms of the chair until his knuckles turned white. "Wait a minute, you said the nanites would stop the brain blast."
    "No," Dex answered. "I said they would help. They can't prevent a brain blast, only repair the damage as it's happening. It ups the survival rate to approximately eighty-seven percent."
    Better odds than she had by using aspirin alone, but Mary had the feeling that Dex wasn't telling them everything.
    "Jonah, I think we should take the deal. If Dex is