or's
world badly in need of a new work-force. Thus were born the genetic up-lifts of the early Twenty-First Century, as species after species was uplifted into se
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practicing my hook-shot with the waist-can and in walked this doll. She sauntered in with that
am
gate. Not when nobody cares about the Interspecies Council in the first place (for history buffs who have been under a rock for the past few decades,
com b
Miss C
mith here t
e kidd
omeone with a clic
waitin
"Send
e book in th
with the fur in all the right places (hey, I'm not prejudice; as long as
Smith
eam too
(didn't those go out of style last century) and a dirty-white shirt with a r
, looking around nervously. I began thinking th
tor Fla
s Flaa
ine, I was born fo
y have something that
hat we're
wn
"there's some odd hap
there
ch
and said, "I think that my
's down t
or three days..., "
andle missi
t up to retri
isappropriations of grants a
ell hear this out (it's not
any do you
t for Multinational U
t my at
that grosses 80 billion
dmitted amoun
the Senior
es
took an up
in my cha
and began h
began to investigate. In the next few weeks I saw less and less of him until, finally, he came in looking sc
on, "And what convin
of a shirt pocket an
drop. It's his. I think i
ad been used. There's only one way that you remove these thing
"Did he leave an
, and said, "He found that all the discrepancies o
d again, "He also referred to an Operation Sunbu
d watched as my computer, ICy, popped up from the center of my desk, the surface flipping up into a holo-screen and the senso-pad keyboard coming up from the center. ICy wasn't exactly government
oftware, like everyone else and their grand
ch sometimes when I
t all t
ont of the holo-screen. He
Loon but I don't suppos
erated Bird People hears w
some info if yo
ho
ded from t
se kind of response
being transferred out three
I'll
as a Janitor
up instead of doing the sweeping. Well, what a
s down for a transfe
"See what you can get me on MUT and any connections
oo-
mp the
gave me the raspberri
t with some large scale polishing here and there that the focal point of Iran, et al, would be someplace up in orbit. So, a bit of work and a few satellites later, and the sunlight coming off of the plain is focused onto a large geo-stable set of
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e at this office. He was transferred away about six m
It's on the top level of the 'Plex, exposed to the sunlight and everything (well, what there is of it). The front office was big and plush and a bit gaudy, done up with pictures of some of its various holdings and projects, mi
old office. I lent something to him, you
ce has been thoroughly c
aid as I casually slipped a ta
ither side of it watching me, got into my car, set the elevation at
t're you getti
ernal security, are running a check on you, and there's radar impu
at I ought to
. You ought to se
he address
up
nd see about getting into the MUT
system could spit me
e, wh
I hear and
my way. I also turned on my traffic radar
iced a blip about five minutes behind
rown a tail, " I mut
controls. As I moved, the blip moved. So,
el with Tango's scanners. I needed a specific type for what I had in mind. Co
began t
I'm onto
e blip closed to three miles; it mus