Gregory rises from his little watch physically refreshed, but mentally even more exhausted than before. Life is though for a former zombie if the existential questions regarding the fundamental nature of his being follow him even into his dreams. No rest for the wicked, of course, but apparently also no rest for those who have lost easy categorization as a human being. On the other hand, he does feel refreshed…and actually he’s quiet lucky that everybody even let him take a nap in the middle of the field during a sports competition. (Would this happen to a normal human…?)…
But not only has his nap not refreshed him mentally, it has also not done anything to improve his situation. The portable corner is still cornering him, and his morale is in the doldrums as usual. Almost looks like the Training Camp from Hell gave him no actual advantage at all. But then, it didn’t need to. It helped some of his team-mates, after all – and since Gregory had to tag along, anyway, as the team captain, I guess there was no need to give him any other incentives.
In the absence of any positive effect from the TCFH, Gregory considers falling back onto the tactic used by all the other batters from his team, and just steal a widget! But management has headed him off at the pass – the widget has been turned into a sticky widget*, so it can’t be stolen.
What…what is he going to do now? That was their plan B. Their go-to solution. The only arrow in their quiver.
More on Thursday.
* I think that’s how this works, at least. I think the widget is that strange contraption of three wooden posts they have in cricket…and then you can turn it into a sticky widget so it can’t become a stolen widget. Probably? Or perhaps making the widget sticky only means it will continue to score your side victory points even if it’s no longer held by any of your units. For the practical side I improvised. It’s about preventing it from being stolen, so it seems likely there is some sort of anti-theft device involved. And given how old and traditional cricket is, I couldn’t imagine that to be just some sort of RFID tag, so it’s very likely ball-and-chain.