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Dawn is coming up and, delirious, Graeber resolves to pay the Luxembourg lawyer a visit. | Dawn is coming up and, delirious, Graeber resolves to pay the Luxembourg lawyer a visit. | ||
Graeber has made a beeline for an | Graeber has made a beeline for an avocat’s office in Av. John F Kennedy in the Belgian Quarter. As Palmer’s bad luck would have it, ''L’Hôtel des Grandes Moules Frites'', the venue for the Business Day Convention, also happens to be in the Belgian quarter, in avenue J F Kennedy. | ||
===Man overboard=== | ===Man overboard=== | ||
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“Vega den? what kind of child do you think I am?” | “Vega den? what kind of child do you think I am?” | ||
Barman | Barman pops a drink on the bar. Boone snatches it. | ||
She | “Sir, wait —” | ||
She says, “well someone is in for a fun ride”. | |||
“Huh?” Boone starts to feel good. | |||
Suddenly she turns frosty, like that first breath of winter. | |||
Says she has to leave. | |||
They are watching you, Mr Boone. | They are watching you, Mr Boone. | ||
She presses a card into Boone’s hand. Barman gives a | She presses a card into Boone’s hand. She sees something over Boone’s shoulder. She looks nervous, is scanning the room. “I can’t be seen here. Nor can you. It wouldn’t be —good for you.” | ||
Boone sways around trying to see what she is looking at. He is feeling woozy “What do you mean good?” He turns back to her but she is not there. | |||
Barman gives him a knowing look. “What?” | |||
Murkily bone seeds her sequinned dress sparkling as she melted into the crowd. It looked like a man was manhandling her out. Boone drooped. | |||
“id be, ah, 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.” | |||
Boone feels the uneasy sensation of Vega and passes out. Boone face-plants the carpet. | |||
meanwhile Graeber tries unsuccessfully to liberate the Barman and gets thrown out. | |||
==[[Hacienda]]== | ==[[Hacienda]]== | ||
The second time do Boone wakes from a Vega-induced Stupor. He is in a GFS suite at the Hacienda, a luxury hotel room next to is sleeping form of the kid. He does not know how he got there but reaches out to touch the child’s form to find that she is quite cold. At the same time he notices a small hole in the window and a trickle of blood between the kids shoulder-blades. and there is a knock on the door. | The second time do Boone wakes from a Vega-induced Stupor. He is in a GFS suite at the Hacienda, a luxury hotel room next to is sleeping form of the kid. He does not know how he got there but reaches out to touch the child’s form to find that she is quite cold. At the same time he notices a small hole in the window and a trickle of blood between the kids shoulder-blades. and there is a knock on the door. | ||
Boone | A window cleaning unit abseils past the window. Did he see someone in a suit? Boone gives chase but he is still woozy from the Vega. By the time he gets to the ground the man has gone. He races back up to the room, but to his horror find the cleaning staff are in the room and there is no sign of the body. | ||
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? | CB radio interlude. It is Palmer-Jenkins. “Boone: where the hell are you? | ||