You know the feeling when something's taking just too damn long and all you can think of is wanting to be done with it already - not unlike that gut wrenching feeling when you find yourself helplessly and hopelessly clenched to the toilet rim, praying to every deity you don't believe in to help you hear that relieving splash noise already - and the thought creeps so deep you find yourself incapable of thinking about anything else, even what you might be able to do to wrap up the damn thing already. Though your mind might wander off toward all the unintentional puns in that one last sentence alone for a second or two, but it snaps back to that feeling eventually.

There are men who at times like this just get up, after not having let out anything but a disappointed sigh, and those who are man enough to lock their jaws sore and their knuckles pale until they have to flush, victoriously. Even if it takes two damn years.


Smugly staring at the offended expression on the doktor's face, aerelm added,

 

You ever have this feeling that now is the correct time to do something? Me neither, but the Doktor did. He knew he toyed and was toyed with long enough, there was nothing more to be gained from wasting aerelm's time. In fact Krieger was getting dangerously close to that point where he was actually wasting his own time. And Krieger never liked wasting time, being a man of scientific principles and all.

"Perhaps I could interest you in another project of mine? Two microchips, one in your visual cortex and one in the motor cortex. They can be configured to both receive and transmit information to the Neural Net. Perhaps if you're interested I'll tell you more about it?"

The last sentence was actually a rhetorical question, or at least the Doktor made it so. He cared not what his customer's answer to that question was, because he was certain that this offer was exactly the thing aerelm needed.

"With them you'll be able to do all the iris implant could, but the action would be in your brain, so you'll keep your eyes intact. Also the complexity of the data you could work with would be much higher than that of the iris implant. You could for instance control your ship with your thoughts no worse than as if you were flying it directly with your own two hands."