Chapter One
Teri Pace wanted to tear off her clothes and run naked through the
basement laboratory. She wanted to leap into the air, scream at the
top of her lungs, careen through Metro's hallways. Instead, she let out
a tiny yelp of joy, then quickly looked over her shoulder to make sure
she was still alone.
She turned back to the glass maze and stared down at the tiny
white mouse. Sightless eyes stared back at her from behind twitching
whiskers. She picked up the mouse in her hand, feeling the creature's
lilliputian claws against her skin. Then she carefully placed the mouse
back at the start of the maze.
Without thought, without flaw, the animal rushed through the tiny
glass hallways, once again making all the correct turns, arriving at the
end in record time. Teri sat down hard on a metal stool next to the
maze, fighting to catch her breath. She had never expected the experiment
to actually work.
She ran a hand through her tousled mop of auburn hair, forcing
herself to calm down. There was still plenty of work left to do. She
had to run the experiment a dozen more times. She had to prepare a
paper on the results, something good enough for the har ... read full excerpt from Skeptic ebook
