“What did you do to thwart their attack?”
“That was the easy part. I stood by while they prepared and headed off to launch the assault. When they approached the mansion, I threw up a force field that bounced their missiles back at them and then I ignited the rest of their fireball inventory. End of story, end of raptors.”
“Wow! I didn’t realize you could create a force field and remotely set off explosions.”
“You can if you’re a Universal Ursine Intellect Model 7 - Artificial Intelligence System, on my way to Artificial General Intelligence and who knows, maybe I’ll become Autonomous.
“Quite an upgrade! Congratulations!
“Thank you. By the way, your tail is told.”
The End of Volume Seven of
The Casebooks of Octavius Bear
The Suit Case
About the Author
Harry DeMaio is a nom de plume of Harry B. DeMaio, successful author of several books on Information Security and Business Networks as well as the seven-volume Casebooks of Octavius Bear. A retired business executive, consultant, information security specialist, former pilot and graduate school adjunct professor, he whiles away his time traveling and writing preposterous articles and stories.
Former New York City natives, he and his extremely patient and helpful wife, Virginia, and their Bichon Frisé, Woof, live in Cincinnati (and several other parallel universes.) They have two sons, living in Scottsdale, Arizona and Cortlandt Manor, New York, both of whom are quite successful and quite normal, thus putting the lie to the theory that insanity is hereditary.
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