after 16 hours it has stopped snowing. how quaint to find myself atop the northest pole without having to move 

Maverick 

enigmatic 

what does it mean to be a deviant 

 <<so what hemisphere are you on?>> he asked her

But she was still in that state 

<<you can’t know that. I keep my lives totally separate>>

<<why did you come over here to the Internet cafe—don’t you have those over there?>>

<<over here?—like, yours?no, I’ll forget this conversation in the morning. I don’t want to know where you are—ok? Oh—because the downloads are better—duh!>>

She would not have remembered any of this had it not been for the several incessant sounds of alerts ringing in her head like mass bells 

 

And it was only because he caught her in a mood—a very bad day and a few slugs of cheap vodka so,

in front of the webcam she shot her bright teal lace panties then opened her legs and looked into the cam,

<<let me be the object of your desire>> and fell flat on her face from the last shot hitting her just then

arching her back sharing an unintentional view of a nether factor realized and faced around

<<just joking>>

and fell flat on her face again 

Internet cafe story continues

The Internet Cafe was on the ‘other side’ of the northern hemisphere; she had taken the Broadband Cable Jet across which happened to be—at that time—during her coffee break at work 

Anyway she got back in time but —there’s always that second lag between time zones and your virtual self isn’t quite honed to you.

It was hours later before it occurred to her to check her messages. The In Real Life work hours sucked the most, and it’s mostly because people don’t know how to talk to each other anymore. Well, Roux thought, anyway—and she was the worst example of this exact thing, she knew.

They had to watch a boring lecture. On video! So what was the point? And then after, the discussion—in a circle like the ‘Round Table’ concept —and? Everyone is texting each other and no one says a word out loud.

It could be about that they record the meetings. And everyone is encrypted —or whatever they call it.

But it gave her such a headache! People can still get in your bubble without actually being in your physical bubble which —big brother counts on.

So, after downloading her daily stats she went home and ate a burrito and reached for her laptop to write, remembering what she meant to put down —and there was his message —this is not a Pipe man/guy/person/entity who was on the other side of the hemisphere and she ….had his pipe. That’s how this all started with them. That pipe