Chapter 30
She's just as tall as I remember. Her nose and chin are perhaps too sharp, but they're offset by the plumpness of her painted lips. She's not smiling at the moment. She's serious, wants to know about the products of the company I am representing. I bet she is curious to discover whether there's some potential benefit there for her own company.
That's all she is interested in. Whereas I find myself craning to catch a glimpse of her tanned cleavage, desperate to brush my fingers over her velvet-clad forearm.
"Um, good morning, Miss. Kingston" She smiles at me. Now, I am sure she recognizes me, I was not so sure at first. I swallow hard and struggle for coherence. It's difficult with the way she keeps glancing at me, making me wet, semi-fluid dripping down the inside of my thigh.
"Um – well – FaceQuest is a startup with a unique solution to the problem of finding people on the web. We offer an image-search engine, speciaIed for matching faces in digital images. Our algorithms are based on the notion of caricature." Jim jumped in to say, reaIing that he is into his pitch, his assistant starts the PowerPoint, and he gestures at the slides projected on the screen at the back of the booth.
"We can take a target face and reduce it to a simple sketch, a set of vectors that offers an economical representation of its essential features while still being recognizable to a human. We do the same for faces that we find in the search set. Our matching strategy is more effective than the competition, because the vector features of the target and search candidate can be geometrically transformed into the same frame of reference. We can recognize search candidates in a much wider range of head positions – as much as forty five degrees from face-on."
"Interesting. Very interesting." Paige licks her ruby lips. I swallow hard and work on controlling my breathing. "You mentioned web searching. Can this technology be used for biometric ID as well?" She asked Him, but her eyes were on me.
"Definitely. We're actually in the process of discussion with several government agencies regarding custom biometric applications."
"And what's your role in the company – Katherine" She asks leaning forward to read my badge, I catch a faint hint of her perfume. It's sharp rather than sweet, and reminds me of a pine forest.
I hardly recognize that name. Everyone calls me Kathy
"I am the legal advisor of the company." I pull myself up to my full five foot seven inches. "Well, my firm is, but I decided to personally take on this new venture". I said.
"Oh?" She gives me a frank once over. Like Jim and Venk, I'm wearing a yellow polo with the company logo, and navy polyester pants. I suddenly wish I were more glamorous. "We should talk some more. Come on." She said.
Paige beckons me to follow her over to the exhibitor lounge area. I watch her thighs flex under the emerald nap as she sits down across from me. I hope that I'm not salivating.
"How would you like to work with my company?"
"Really Dr. Turner?"
"I mean I would like for your firm to handle the legal aspect of my company's business. I recently had to fire the firm representing my company due to some discrepancies." She said "I could use a bright young woman like you in my side"
