198|Bad Code-Part 1

Across town, in the building owned by the man being laid to rest at West Park Cemetery at that very moment, Levi sat in Linda Swartz's office, wondering if he'd made a mistake.

After the usual, standard pleasantries and patient-doctor bullshit was out of the way, Linda had encouraged him to make himself comfortable on her tan leather couch.

That was fifteen minutes ago. Nothing else was said since, and Levi was hoping she'd take the lead, or at the very least, give him further instructions. But she seemed awfully happy to just scribble in her brand new journal.

What she was scribbling in there was a huge mystery to him since he'd barely said a word.

He cleared his throat. Linda looked up from her notebook and smiled at him.

"I've been thinking," he began. "I've been thinking a lot lately."

"Anything in particular?" Linda asked.

Levi nodded. "Do you think people are inherently bad?"

Linda dropped the pen on her journal, laced her hands together, and weighed his question before asking o