Cheshire took the compliment on his code without comment. It was simple and elegant in it's own way, but that was still old code to him. His own firewalls and data probes were unfazed by anything as simple as the lines he gave away. Even in his charity, Chesh was  sure to keep the advantage.<br/><br/>And then Chesh mentally flinched at DEE's next question, although he showed no outward signs. He casually brushed the question off.<br/><br/>"Ha!" Chesh exclaimed. "That would be telling, now wouldn't it?" He didn't want to get the hologram more interested, but mentioning the fact he got busted and had to work with them as part of the deal to avoid jail time would simple peek DEE's interest even more and insure the AI found out exactly what Chesh didn't want found.<br/><br/>"It's inconsequential to our little bet anyways. My real, original name. No aliases, no screen names. And we may want to re-negotiate the terms of winning. The original deal has grown a little stale."<br/><br/>In truth, Chesh was slowly more and more sure that he was going to lose the bet and didn't want to complicate things with Dumas. He was quite aware, however, that DEE would have a hard time seeing that line of reason. As well, he was also forming some very real ideas as to how DEE was formed anyway, even without seeing his actual code.<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Castle Shadow-hold using Tapatalk