[A lot has happened in the past week or so, and Emmanuel is definitely shaken; but he's also become steadily more determined to do something productive. Something about near-death experiences with malfunctioning planes must have flipped a switch or something. Well--mostly it was that if he didn't keep himself busy, he'd have too much time to think.]
[the buzzing has made it pretty difficult, though. He's left the city's public library with a headache and a bunch of unremarkable information about the city's early days as an English colony, and not much else. Lunch sounds like a good thing, but the path to one of his favorite cafes takes him through the Business District. It seems like people were right--it is coming from the Towers. He'd always sort of thought of the building as an ego trip on the part of its creator, but now with the truth behind Thunder Corp. out, at least for the network, it was much more sinister.]
[There's a dilemma here: he knows people have gotten memories, pulses, from getting too close. Julien had gotten sick, other people he wasn't sure. But there's only one way to get answers, and that means more memories. Even if the ones he has are still a jumbled mess.]
September 30, early afternoon
[the buzzing has made it pretty difficult, though. He's left the city's public library with a headache and a bunch of unremarkable information about the city's early days as an English colony, and not much else. Lunch sounds like a good thing, but the path to one of his favorite cafes takes him through the Business District. It seems like people were right--it is coming from the Towers. He'd always sort of thought of the building as an ego trip on the part of its creator, but now with the truth behind Thunder Corp. out, at least for the network, it was much more sinister.]
[There's a dilemma here: he knows people have gotten memories, pulses, from getting too close. Julien had gotten sick, other people he wasn't sure. But there's only one way to get answers, and that means more memories. Even if the ones he has are still a jumbled mess.]
[He moves closer to the building.]