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many planes, some easily accessible, some not. She was bonkers.

Except he’d been playing around with the computer she’d given

him. It was far more advanced than anything he’d ever seen before.

No one in the industry was even talking about a system that could do

the things this one could. It was a supercomputer. It held so much

information that Dante couldn’t even think of a name for the storage

capacity. It blew past terabytes. It had a connection to an internet but

claimed there was no connectivity here. Dante had played around and

gotten the system to acknowledge his wireless connection. The

superhot hostess had been unimpressed. She’d asked him why he’d

connected her to such a primitive system and promptly downloaded

the whole of the global internet. The whole fucking thing.

“Where did you get this?” Dante asked.

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The girl named Meg rolled her eyes. “I told you. Your vampire

counterpart gave it to me.”

Dante remembered that part. There was a Vampire plane. He was

a royal there. He worked for Dellacorp, and it was huge corporation.

His vampire counterpart obviously had it better than he did. He ran

this shitty two-bit store and was going nowhere fast. The other Dante

sounded like a guy who got an enormous amount of tail.

“As far as I can tell, this thing is nuclear powered,” Dante said in

amazement. “How can that be possible? And I think it took my blood

a couple of minutes ago. It thinks I’m not edible. What’s up with

that?”

“Dante, well, the other Dante, he goes to a lot of different planes.”

Meg sipped the coffee he’d made and continued. “The computer is set

to test potential food sources. I’m afraid it’s decided you’re toxic.”

She looked at the screen. “Too much pollution, and wow, apparently