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Caldwell showered and got dressed in his old clothes, every minute heightening the excitement. There was no hot water so he was now we></a>ll and truly awake. An ice cold shower had a way of doing that to you. He checked his knapsack. The sole was in there ed in its pag material. It’s all I have. It’s all I need. He rolled the knapsack’s bination locks. With the bination, only a slasher could gain access into it and he had no plans to be in the viity of any of those.
Caldwell sat on the bed and plated whether or not to wake Kat or leave her a note. While he was deliberating, as though reading his mind, she turned round and stared at him with sleep-puffed eyes ringed with marks from the goggles.
“Don’t know why you o sleep with them on,” he said to her as her tired eyes adjusted to the natural light streaming through the windows of the trailer.
“’t sleep without them. You know that. Stayed up all night?”
“Pretty much. I’m off to the airport now.”
“So soon,” she said, yawning.
“Afraid so. But promise me you’ll stay here till I get back.”
“Already did. Besides, I like it here.” She smiled, traces of sleep still embedded deep within her pale skin.
“I’ve left some instrus on how to log in on Glyph’s main sole. I alsed it so that the message avatar is figured to prompt you when you have messages. I’ve unplugged the others. The HoloFlik is that gray projector thing on the ceiling.” He pointed up at the ceiling where a small holographic projector unit was hanging. “The Sims go in a slot on that box.”
“Thanks, I think I ha,” she said. Kat was already prepping foodbye. The rest was just semantics.
“OK take care of yourself.”
“I will. You too.”
He hugged her. She held oight like a mother sending her only son off to war. It was like she was afraid he wasn’t ing back. Finally she let go, fighting back tears. After one last look at her, he stood up a Glyph’s trailer. O<var>藏书网</var>utside, the police cordons were gohe ever-effit Fouler had seen to it that they had been removed at dawn. This guy seemed too eager to please. Suspi rose in Caldwell like bile in a gall bladder.
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On the way to Heathrow Union Airport, flanked on all sides by megacorp drones returning to work, a wave of excitement washed through Caldwell for the first time in a long while. The human automatons that made the Union tick were everywhere, scurrying bad forth via the entrances, exits, platforms and people movers, like a macabre biological orchestra. Several questions remaihough. Could he trust Fouler? Was the girl Mei Lin for real? He hoped she was. Would he be able to track her down in Hong Kong? She could help<tt>藏书网</tt> him fill in some of the gaps in his past, what it had been like growing up in Hong Kong. And if his memories were corred not planted by Fouler and his ies, there had been some kind of a e there, something that went far beyond the urained raging of teenage hormones.
At the Heathrow Union Airport Terminal 10 station, Caldwell stepped off the translut MagLev pulsing itently with advertising and made his way to the departure area. Fouler was standing at a special ter with no airline livery. He looked different standing up, taller, more fragile but positively more dangerous. o him were the two heavies from Fouler’s limousine and an attractive young woman carrying a red leather attaché case. The girl retty in a prim and proper British way and looked vaguely familiar. The two toughs made of the fact that they thought the world of her. Fouler was his usual dapper self in a beige pin-striped suit. He hadn’t shaved though and a five o’clock shadow g to his long sharp jaw.
“Good to see you didn’t get other ideas, Cad,” he said good-naturedly. He had probably managed just a few hours sleep but it didn’t show, except ihrobbing veins running up the back of his hands.
“After the last twenty-four hours, unlikely,” Caldwell said affably enough. He had made a scious decision to give Fouler a break this m. If Fouler laying him it would do no harm to appear to be cooperating.
“I want you to meet Ms. Levin. She will be apanying you on the flight, as will Agent Jones and Agent Ja.
“Good to meet you. Do you have a first name?” Caldwell asked the prim and proper blonde. He figured there was also no harm in being friendly with the girl who robably going to mess with his head during the flight.
“I don’t think you need ...” Fouler started.
“It’s alright Bruce,” she said. “My first name is Seven. My parents had a weird sense of humor and in keeping the hey chose for me I am hum them.”
Caldwell found it hard work keeping a straight face but he managed somehow. He was sorely tempted to ask her something about being open all hours but he bit his tongue. For the first time in a long while, he was in an upbeat mood.
“OK, look here Cad. We’ve hooked you up with one of ents in Hong Kong. Agent Jones and Agent Ja will put you in touch with our ta Hong Kong and they’ll be leaving on the flight. Our Hong Kong agent will sort you out with everything you need.”
“OK. Sounds suspiciously like a plan.”
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“The deal is this. As soon as you identify this work and find a way in, you pull back, up all your traces a your Hong Kong tact Agent Hsu to inform us. We’ll then take over from there. Do not attempt to play around iwork. Your job is just to get access and co-ordinates on this thing. I must warn you, in case you’ve fotten, that the ese have some of the most sophisticated eleitrusion ter-Attatities (ICE) in the world. These things don’t just keep you out. They track you down until you are a flatline in cyberspace.”
“Uood.”
“Do not attempt to lose Agent Hsu. We’ll have a GPS tag on you and will be able to know your whereabouts to within inches.”
With that Fouler strode off down towards the escalator, his striped beige suit fluttering in the subtle currents of the air-ditioning. Agent Jones and Agent Ja stood gawking after him like children abandoned in a crowded shopping mall.
“e on Mr. Caldwell,” urged Ms. Levin, grabbing him by the arm. “I have a date with that important brain of yours.”
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