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creative. In short, nothing worth stealing."
It was a real crazy way of lookin' at things, but it made a kinda lopsided
sense. I turned and tried the wine, which was real sweet and went down good. I
always had a thing for sweet stuff; it's why I ain't never been able to keep
weight off.
"So what's next?" I asked the man. "Why bring us here?"
"We have some time, and we thought we'd make the best use of it," Aldrath told
me. "There's no place more secure than here, although nothing is absolutely
secure. We are going to Mayar Eldrith's estate, which is both private and
isolated. He is a senior vice president of the Corporation and chairman of the
Security Committee. His staff were all handpicked and are constantly checked by
me and are as secure as we can get. We have all the medical-techinical apparatus
needed to prep you for this job, and we'll do that as well as practice the
system as best we can. When we're ready, we'll also be ready over in Vogel's
pesthole of a world."
The flyin' bus turned and started down, and below we could see a real big house,
a bunch of smaller houses that were still bigger'n most of what we had back
home, with gardens and woods and stuff. It was the kind of country place you
might expect the Queen of England to have, and the kind I always dreamed about.
There weren't no funny cubes and circles here; this place had real charm and the
outside, at least, looked like real wood, though it was real modern-lookin' and
had all kinds of crazy angles.
We was met by a small group of young people all of which looked just as
beautiful and just as perfect as the ones in the station. I was already feelin'
real self-conscious about my looks, kinda like bein' the only black in an
all-white town someplace out west. They wasn't white folks, but they was all the
same and they was sure different than any of us.
The main house was big-I think it coulda been the biggest hotel in Philadelphia
with room left over, though it was only four or five floors. It just went on and
on forever. They didn't take us there, though, but to a smaller place down a
hill and in some woods.
The inside was gorgeous, anyways-all wood paneling, thick carpeted floors that
felt and looked great, real modern-type furniture, soft lighting that seemed to
come from everywhere and went on when you came in and went down when you
left-all that. The upstairs rooms all looked out on a balcony onto an enormous
livin' room, kinda like in them luxury hotels.
"We use this place when we want privacy, even from the main house, where there
are a lot of comings and goings," Aldrath told us. "You'll find clothing and the
basics in the closets and bath upstairs. Your meals will be prepared by my
security staff and served below in the dining alcove. If you wish to go outside,
please limit yourself to the walks out the back of the house and do not go to
any other buildings or speak to anyone not on the staff without my permission.
We have very little time and much to do. I know you must be tired now, so Bill
and I will leave you for now, but we start bright and early tomorrow morning and
the sessions will be long ones."
I had thought Bill would stay here, but it looked not. The whole place was ours.
"Now, this is somethin' else!" I breathed. "The kinda place I always dreamed of
havin'!"
Sam was glum as usual. "Yeah, they treat the condemned with all the luxuries. I
still got a bad feeling about all this. It's too complicated."