CHAPTER 82

CHAPTER 82

KARINA WAS TAKEN to her rooms, when she entered, a blonde woman, the most beautiful she had ever seen, was waiting for her.

She held out what looked like earplugs.

— It's a simultaneous translator of any language that has ever existed on Earth.

Karina put it on and began to understand what the beautiful woman was saying.

— Glad you arrived safe and sound, my dear.

The woman hugged her as if she had been waiting for this encounter for decades.

— Sorry but...

— This is a technology that is starting to be implemented by Google Translate, but we already had it in the mid-70s.

— It's amazing… are you really talking to me in German?

— Of course... you must be confused, my name is Maria Orsic, I'm a paranormal scientist, but I'm also your grandmother.

— I find it kind of hard for that to happen.

— Ever heard of cryonics?

— When I was little, I ate something like this.

Maria didn't understand anything that girl said, maybe some unimportant reference that SUMI failed to report.

— Cryonics is a scientific experiment where a person is frozen and can be awakened somewhere in the future they wish to be.

— I think I've seen it in a Captain America comic book before.

Maria again ignored the reference.

— You're more beautiful than I thought, dear.

— No more than you.

Maria wondered what it would be like if she could see that reunion between Walter and the girl, but she was too late.

— Unfortunately I have bad news for you.

The girl stared at her.

— Your parents died when you were very young, and your grandfather, Walter...

— Then...

Karina realized the terror of the news for that woman.

— That's right, I'm your only family.

— Are you forgetting about me, mother?

Maria looked with some contempt at Marianne.

— You know very well what I mean, my dear... Karina, this is my daughter, Marianne, she is the head of the BDN, a kind of FBI of Germany.

Karina reached out to shake her hand and was greeted coldly, as if she were dirty.

— Let's put the past behind us, Mother — Marianne said dryly.

Karina gently took Maria's wrist and said:

— I would like to know everything about them.

— Your grandfather left a present for you in your new house, I believe it wouldn't be too much to ask your aunt to take you there, would it, Marianne?

— Don't you think I have more to do? — The girl might as well go over there and read the letters herself.

— As far as I know, subordinates do not choose missions.

— You are my mother, but...

— And you will obey me, as simple as that, you will take her out of here and go with her, it's not a request, it's an order!!!