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{{Infobox Story
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|name=Heart of Glass
|setting        = [[The Exhalation]], [[2600]]
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|enemy          = [[The Lady]]
|main character=[[Bernice Summerfield]]
|writer         = Daniel O'Mahony
|series=[[Big Finish]] - [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series|Bernice Summerfield Series]]
|anthology      = Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries (anthology)
|featuring=
|series        = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short stories
|year=[[2600]]
|release date  = September 2000
|writer=[[Daniel O'Mahony]]
|prev           = The Light that Never Dies (short story)
|publication=[[The Dead Men Diaries]]
|next           = The Monster and the Archaeologists (short story)
|prev=The Light that Never Dies (short story)
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|next=The Monster and the Archaeologists (short story)
'''''Heart of Glass''''' was a [[2000 (releases)|2000]] short story written by [[Daniel O'Mahony]] and released in the ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' anthology ''[[The Dead Men Diaries (anthology)|The Dead Men Diaries]]''.
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== Synopsis ==
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== Plot ==
[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is sent to [[the Exhalation]] by [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] to negotiate [[archaeology|archaeological]] access to the [[Ganesh system]] with [[COMBINE]]. She meets with the [[CEO]], known as [[the Lady]], and the [[security consultant]], [[Ui Tereshkova]], who seems to be attracted to her and later warns her not to go back to her room. At night, Benny has strange [[dream]]s about a [[glass]] [[robot|automaton]] and is awoken by a sharp pain in her shoulder. She sees Tereshkova in her room, having smashed the [[empath globe]] in the room.


== Summary ==
In the morning, Benny realises that COMBINE took some of her [[DNA]] and confronts the Lady, who has chosen to give the [[Braxiatel Collection]] access to the Ganesh system as she requested. The Lady tells her only that it was part of the exchange and dismisses her, after which Benny finds Tereshkova in her room and learns that she uses a genetic mask to keep COMBINE from taking any of her own DNA. She explains that COMBINE will not do anything with her DNA but that they might sell it on and that they had read [[Bernice Summerfield's diary|her diary]]. Benny is angry, having had everything that she brought with her stolen by the corporation.
Benny is sent to negotiate access to the Ganesh system with the secretive COMBINE corporation... and finds, too late, that the access comes at a terrible price.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[The Lady]]
* [[Ui Tereshkova]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[The Exhalation]] is an artificial glass world. [[COMBINE]] has its headquarters there.
* COMBINE was founded in [[New Orleans]] in the [[20th century]].
* [[Ui Tereshkova]] is a security consultant.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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Heart of Glass was a 2000 short story written by Daniel O'Mahony and released in the Bernice Summerfield anthology The Dead Men Diaries.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Benny is sent to the Exhalation by Braxiatel to negotiate archaeological access to the Ganesh system with COMBINE. She meets with the CEO, known as the Lady, and the security consultant, Ui Tereshkova, who seems to be attracted to her and later warns her not to go back to her room. At night, Benny has strange dreams about a glass automaton and is awoken by a sharp pain in her shoulder. She sees Tereshkova in her room, having smashed the empath globe in the room.

In the morning, Benny realises that COMBINE took some of her DNA and confronts the Lady, who has chosen to give the Braxiatel Collection access to the Ganesh system as she requested. The Lady tells her only that it was part of the exchange and dismisses her, after which Benny finds Tereshkova in her room and learns that she uses a genetic mask to keep COMBINE from taking any of her own DNA. She explains that COMBINE will not do anything with her DNA but that they might sell it on and that they had read her diary. Benny is angry, having had everything that she brought with her stolen by the corporation.

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

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