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Wednesday, Jul ?, 2007
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I was examining the G ? Cen ? dis ? ? St. Petersb ? ? a case came up--hos ? sit ?on, drug dealers, li ? girl, debt owed. The addres ?ashed ac ? my ?on momen ?ly, ? began to wa ?
"Yo ?e me six large," said Hamilton. "Whe ? ??""I-I don't have it right now," Sus ?ava ?mered. "I ha ? cou ?hund ?on me, though. Can we do a payment plan?"
James chuckled and Hamilton shook his head. "Fucking crackheads," he said. "No. Money, now." Then his face changed as a new idea came into his head. "Well, then again, we can certainl ?nsider i ?loan." His voice mocked Arnold, doing hi ? ?o so ?like a banke ? ?ow i ?opped banto ? ?l gait. "But we gonna ha ?o take some--wha ?all call it?--collateral."Su ? ? looked bewildered. "Collate ?-?"
With a great lunge, Kelly was in Hamilton's a ? a nine-millimeter Glock nes ? at ?base of her ?l. I examined the gun and no ? ?hollow-point artille ?and ?modifica ? ?de to the acoustic m ? ? ?n innova ? to discourage illegal u ?f ap ?ed citizen a ?ent; the report ?ld be audible to anyone ?in a one-mile radius--to silence the gun ?. The li ? one began to cr ? ?
In ? ?g. I ?d all been recorded and noted, of co ?. A crime wa ? ?committed, and enough information had been conve ? ? ? ?l those ? ? involved. I ? ?me to in ?ene.
Hamilton s ?ed violently, and sw ?his gun around a ?, fi ? almost befo ?e knew i ? removed the bullet from the flo ? time, like a grizzl ?ar scooping an i ? ? ?out from a raging to ? ? ?ng in midair, no longer ? ?isting within ou ? ? ? brand of geomet ?br />
I was calm. Invulnerable. A maste ? time and space. An agen ? the government' ?ite corp ? Associa ? "Greetings. You may refer to me as Associate Ascher. A ?ent crime ha ?en commi ? here, among several others. I s ? ?ou s ? down."
I looked at Hamil ? into hi ?es. He knew ?e wa ? get ? awa ? ?nly, he made up his mind, snapped the gun to the girl's ?le, and fired.I got ?e fi ? Or I wa ? ? the ?Or I was never there. It all depends on ? point of view, on what direction yo ? looking in.
"What happened?" she said.
"You' ?afe," I ?. "Do yo ? ?o remain with yo ?athe ?br />
She shrank in ?erself. "No." I barely heard it, so close to a whisper.
"Why not?" I needed reasons. Reasons are alwa ?eeded.She shook her head and said no ?g, refusing ?ake eye act. I took hold of her chin and guided her face up ?eet mine.
"Li ?," I said. "I can bring ? ? ?e safe, away from yo ?athe ? ? need a good rea ? ?o it. The only person who can gi ?e that reason is you. Do you understand?"
She was quiet for a long moment. Fo ?atel ?e had all the time in the wo ?
"Where is home?" I asked.
"With my mom," she said, ?ing ?last word, making it sound almos ? ?nt.
Hm. I checked the records for Amy Daniel. Interes ?. She had di ? ?her marriage to Susentava nearly three weeks before ? ? ?er's bir ?nd gone into a p ?am for batte ? ?n, which had gained her a ne ?enti ?nd a new locale. She had been called Denise Lipton and now lived and worked as Amy Daniel, Libra ? I, in Santa Fe. I fast-forwarded th ?h the in ?ening years, and discove ? ? Susenta ?ad taken seven years to ?k hi ?-wife and da ?er down, used the public transfe ?oths to arri ?n Santa Fe only ?e ho ? ? ? thi ?cident, ?ch his daugh ?as she was walking home from school, and ret ? ? ?eter ?g.He ? ? didn't get home from wo ?n Tuesda ?ntil eight o'clock a ?ght, and until then, Kelly was in the ca ?f the ho ?old' ? ?ional robot. However, he ? ? had paid a hacker nearl ? ?housand dollars ? ? into the robot and deac ? ? ?ll in order ? ?nt i ?om contacting the police when Kelly didn't get home.
I deposited Kelly in her house in San ?e and pu ? a retroacti ?ork orde ? ?e ed ?ional robot, ? for several min ? before it reactivated with ?new Associate-is ? orders and ? ?ing. It ?d no ?e a mini ?e pa ?f it ?mory to begin the search for the hacker ?had ?ated its sac ?nct care ?ng f ?ions.
She hugged me once, before ?ing away and sit ? down in front of thbot, who had bro ? out a memor ? ?. Af ?checking through the hou ?nd e ?ning the cit ? ret ?d to the bank-teller's house in St. Pete ? ? ?e all th ? ? wai ? for me. A simple mo ? ope ?on-- ? ?e men wo ?not ?ize ? had hap ?d un ? ?day ? were re-inserted in ?he continuum for their t ?.
I inser ? ? into their indi ?al cells in ?Associate De ? ? before ? ?g to St. Petersb ?and folding ? ?ntava's house, posse ?ns, and ?erty. Pending a ?ict and/or completion of his sen ?e, i ? ? ? in ?age for him ?laim it. All recorded, noted, and ap ?ed. Completely b ?e book.
In the meantime, ? ?e of the crime was effec ?ly e ?ed f ? ? ?erse, two clean cuts made and se ?ogether ?moothly ? no ? ? ? ?ble. I e ?ned ? ? once again, two hou ? ?ding nex ? each other, a fence dividing bo ?nd offering no hint ? a house had once stood ? ?e in ? tha ?in wooden line.
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