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The three of us entered the three-story
catwalk ringed room.
One of the two figures on the first floor
looked up at us, and then exited the room.
“Uh, guys, you may want to hurry,” I said.
“Okay. It will be in this batch,” said Tom.
As he swapped out e-girl’s case of trays,
she put a hand on each and closed her eyes a moment, searching for the circuit
board. Then she nodded. “Yep, it’s in this one.”
They swapped out my case with miscellaneous
boards as well. It was not necessary, but as long as my sister insisted on
having me along, it would make Enertech’s lab technicians guess harder at what
we had really been after.
The door through which we had entered
clicked open. The man who entered wore a rumpled suit and had to be security.
His clothing bulged in all the right places for concealed weapons—including at
his shoulders that could, by-the-way, bench-press a Buick. “Hi, Tom, how’s it
hangin’? Some of the boards we need today were among the ones that cycled up
here. Could you check…” His eyes fixed on me and widened slightly.
I’d only once been recognized by a stranger
before, and for this, inside a MegaCorp Ancology, to be the first time on an
op? It made my head hurt. My body relinquished control to my mindware, and I
slipped into overdrive. With a thought I drew one I. M. I. nine millimeter Baby
Eagle from a Quick Draw holster, and splattered a tranq on his forehead. With
reformed speed I rushed to the sec-man and eased him to a seated position
before he could collapse on the catwalk and alert his two friends below.
Control of my body ebbed back to me. Without
a word I walked to my case and closed it.
“Even if we weren’t done, we’re done,” said
e-girl. Without waiting for Tom to lead the way, she opened the door, stepped
into the hallway and dragged her case as quickly as she could to the elevator.
1 comment:
Nice excerpt, Gracegood action lead in for Devil's Hit List, and sounds interesting.
Tim
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