CHAPTER 10

I played around with the first button.

“Well, I'll let you count them later.

“Provocateur!

I? Dr. Fallon? I was trying to figure out how to react when our plates

They arrived.

We tasted it, shared it, and then started eating greedily. After having

calmed my appetite a little, I said:

— Have you ever written or worked on anything else before?

“Yes to both. I always liked to write, so I majored in journalism. I worked on

newspapers, but I didn't like it. From being forced to cover stories that didn't interest me, to obeying

to the political bias of the newspaper or, at best, sticking to the boring facts. So I started to

write fiction. It's much more fun.

Oh yes, despite our growing intimacy, he and I were different. my life was

dedicated entirely to the collection and analysis of information, because I always thought that only statistics

could have an impact. However, Damien's readership probably numbered well over a hundred thousand,

and I had to admit that my work only reached a few h