The bright sun shone through the window, which made it difficult to see the ladies slim figure standing with her forehead on the glass. Her eyes shut and her breathing was slow and rythmic, as if she was sleeping while standing. Her attire was that of the business elite, her black shoes reflected the light flooding in from the 82nd floor window, her linen pants were tailored and fit well. Her blouse, unbuttoned at the top brought natural attention to her beautiful features. Her shoulders were strong, but elegant and her posture exuded confidence.
She stood motionless, taking in the voice on the other end of the audio call coming from the speaker on the desk. The voice on the other end of the call bounced and echoed through the large corner office. Each word that came from the speaker was well annunciated and but emotionless, like an aged robot. The words flowed smoothly and quickly but reflected no feeling. This call happened each week, at the same time. The call was
referred to as "the check in" and each employee of Granny Corporation
had one with his or her boss, even the Acting Chief Executive Officer, Lesley
Smalls.
Lesley had worked up through the ranks of Granny Corp and taken
over the reins of the company from the founder, a woman every one called
Granny. In fact, records of this elderly woman’s name had been lost, for all
intensive purposes, her legal name was Granny, just Granny. She had been in retirement
now for just over a year, but had been controlling the direction of the company
with her weekly calls to her successor, like a puppeteer controls their puppet.
Granny is what is called, a control freak. To her credit, she now basically
controlled the free world.
Granny Corp was the First World's producer of biological software.
It's flagship product E.D., was a biological cerebral implant that was placed
in a child's brain prenatally.
“Are we set to move ahead then?” the voice from the box asked.
“Yes we are Mam.” Lesley responded.
“Do I sense, reservation?” Granny shot back.
“No Mam”, Lesley promptly returned. She new better than to step
into that trap, she had grown up hearing stories of what happened to people
that questioned Granny.
“Good. This code will change things for us Lesley”. Her
voice cracked and the hair on Lesley’s neck stood up, her head spun around to
face the voice box.
“Change Mam?”
“Yes, Lesley, Granny Corp will not only control the
education of young minds any more. We are moving up darling!”
