Chapter 4
“I’m so glad you changed your mind,” Joaquin said and greeted him warmly.
“Yes, profesor. You could say I had an epiphany.”
“Excellent. Now, this requires verbal confirmation, so we can move forward. Do you accept the job?”
Guillermo hesitated, only for a second. He trusted Joaquin. And now that his previous contract had been dissolved… “Yes, I accept,” he declared to the mediating e-person standing next to them and placed his palm on the surface it presented, effectively signing his contract.
Joaquin exhaled and sank in his chair. “Thank God for that. I was running out of options. One more hour, and I’d have accepted to go through a de-ageing process the Ekrignontes had offered.”
“Wait, is that so bad? Looking younger with alien technology?”
“Of course it is!” Joaquin spa
