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Realising the scope for disaster, Boone makes a beeline for the quarter, where eventually following powers of deduction, he finds Graeber shaking down a Belgian netting attorney, bbruised and bloody, babbling mindlessly about aleatory contracts (Graeber shouts “YES OR NO GODDAMN IT” and the advocaat has just launched into a lengthy description of what a Belgian corporation isn’t when Boone arrives, hauls him out and remonstrates with him on the street by the ''Manneken Pis''. At that point Wickliffe’s silver sedan rolls by, catching Graeber’s attention. Wickliffe tells him to forget it and focus on the netting, but then sees the ''the child from the alpha den’’, dressed immaculately and bejeweled, emerge from the sedan in the company of — ''Julian Wickliffe himself''. | Realising the scope for disaster, Boone makes a beeline for the quarter, where eventually following powers of deduction, he finds Graeber shaking down a Belgian netting attorney, bbruised and bloody, babbling mindlessly about aleatory contracts (Graeber shouts “YES OR NO GODDAMN IT” and the advocaat has just launched into a lengthy description of what a Belgian corporation isn’t when Boone arrives, hauls him out and remonstrates with him on the street by the ''Manneken Pis''. At that point Wickliffe’s silver sedan rolls by, catching Graeber’s attention. Wickliffe tells him to forget it and focus on the netting, but then sees the ''the child from the alpha den’’, dressed immaculately and bejeweled, emerge from the sedan in the company of — ''Julian Wickliffe himself''. | ||
==[[The business day convention]]== | |||
Boone and Graeber follow the pair into the L’Hôtel, where they lose them in the hubbub — there follows a surreal sequence of hallucinogenic images, like a ghost train of different sessions, plenary sessions, break out sessions, tea breaks and so on until Boone suddenly finds the child, propped up against a bar, looking anxious. [multiple identical clone children] | Boone and Graeber follow the pair into the L’Hôtel, where they lose them in the hubbub — there follows a surreal sequence of hallucinogenic images, like a ghost train of different sessions, plenary sessions, break out sessions, tea breaks and so on until Boone suddenly finds the child, propped up against a bar, looking anxious. [multiple identical clone children] | ||
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Barman offers a drink. Boone snatches it. | Barman offers a drink. Boone snatches it. | ||
She looks nervous, is scanning the room. “I can’t be seen here. Nor can you. It wouldn’t be good for you.” Says she has to leave. She presses a card into Boone’s hand. Barman gives a warning as Boone watched her melt into the crowd. “Careful sir. | She looks nervous, is scanning the room. “I can’t be seen here. Nor can you. It wouldn’t be good for you.” Says she has to leave. | ||
She presses a card into Boone’s hand. Barman gives a warning as Boone watched her melt into the crowd. “Careful with that one, sir. She is an agent.” He taps his nose and skies an eyebrow. “Strictly professional, if you know what I mean.” meanwhile Graeber tries unsuccessfully to liberate the waiting staff and gets thrown out. | |||
==[[Hacienda]]== | |||
At the Hacienda. The child is dead. Liquidated. The regulator is already there, standing over the body. Very weird. There are no creditors. No parents. No records. No police file. No-one recognises her. Only record ties her back to a boarding house for orphans. In the Cayman Islands. Boone picks up her wallet. There is a card saying only “[[Ugland House]], 121 South Church Street, George Town.” | |||
CB radio interlude. It is Palmer-Jenkins. “Boone: where the hell are you? | |||
Boone dissembles and mumbles. Well truth be told, I don’t care where you are. Just get yourself here, and fast. We’ve got a live ongoing situation. Suspected FWMD. You might be right... | |||
==[[Melvin’s short squeeze]]== | ==[[Melvin’s short squeeze]]== | ||