Nikki looked up from her iced chocolate as Stella sat down.
"Hey," she greeted.
"Hey," Stella replied. "How's things?"
"Oh good," Nikki replied. "You?"
"Good."
The two ordered lunch, and Stella a drink of her own. They chatted for awhile before getting down to business. Nikki handed Stella a piece of paper.
"Okay well, still no luck on the bugging front -"
"There's a surprise."
"But that should appease the higher ups, anyway. Ike's power database has gone live on the web. That's the address and a login for you. Trust me, just because I'm married to the guy doesn't mean it was easy to get either. Access is being restricted to YIRAAS members, and only regsiters power-researchers - I think they call them powerologists or something equally kooky - are allowed to edit."
"Like a wiki?"
"A bit, yeah. Anyway, Ike's got other people taking care of the web side of it - he's just contributing to the content so... Anyway this is just viewing access."
"Well," Stella said slowly. "It's something, I guess. I don't really know how it'll come in useful, but then I don't have to make that decision."
"We know so little about the aliens," Nikki pointed out. "It's a start."
"True enough."