In the days to follow we fell into a routine. In the morning she coerced me into reading a Bible together as a couple that Eli had given her. Story time usually ended on a sensual note. She would leave me then, at least that's how it felt.
She would go over to her chair before the screens and become lost to the world. Verbal communication wasn't even possible, because she was so zoned in on her task. At various times throughout the day I would place food and water before her. Most of the time it disappeared, but as to when she ate it I wasn't sure. I even checked outside the window beside her to make sure she wasn't chucking it away.
The evening was my favorite time of the day, because she would stop her work and become mine again. Our nights were full of torrid fantasies come to life and our mornings full of gentle lovemaking, before she went off to work on the only other obsession she had other than me and her faith in God, which was breaking the Code.
I had to admit to a certain amount of jealousy against the pile of equipment in the corner of the room in terms of how occupied it kept Asia, but her work had to be done so I amused myself, as best as I could, with the idle pursuits that I had filled my time up with before the advent of Asia on my island. It was hard though, because well everything that had been before was now almost boring in comparison to spending time with her.
Asia rubbed at her eyes and starred at the screens again. She'd only been at it today for three hours so she couldn't blame it off on fatigue. Could it really be that simple? A half hour later of similar fact-finding and she determined with reasonable accuracy that yes it really could be that simple. The message behind the Code may be a simple one, but it was so complex in its means of accomplishing the intent of its masters, as to completely boggle the imagination in terms of the amount of preparation that it had taken to pull the takeover of the world off, so successfully.
Her mind poisoned by what she had just discovered about the ultimate intentions of the Code she pushed away from her screens and powered down the equipment. She'd had enough of the Code today and it wasn't even lunchtime yet. She stepped outside. Now where would she find John? She hated to abandon him every day the way she had been for over a month now. In some ways he was like a little boy, who was bummed because his buddy was too sick to come outside and play with him. Well she'd surprise him today with an early gift of herself.