"FWLS25" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Something wrong?" I asked.

"How... HOW did you survive that?" a fire marshall asked, as
other be-raincoated men sprayed down the smoldering remains of
the building.

"Survive what?"

"The implosion... the fires... about a dozen tons of
rock..."

"Just lucky, I guess. Anybody got a phone I can use?"

Six concerned motorists tossed cellular phones at me.
Notice TOSS. Nobody seemed to want to come close to me. I
walked across the street, crowd forming a neat bubble around me,
and dialed up.

"Hello?"

"Hi, is this Bob from Speaker World?"

"Yes."

"I'd like to register a complaint about my system I just
bought for five mill. Seems to have levelled my apartment
building and killed about three hundred people. I'd like my
money back."

"Excuse me," said a man behind me.

"Be with you in a second. Anyway, I really think there
should be a warning label on those things, maybe Danger, These
Speakers Could Destroy Your House--"

The phone vanished from my hands. I blinked, then turned
around.

The man seemed to be wearing a green jumpsuit with matching
walkie talkie headset. He was staring woodenly at a palmtop
computer, which he holstered in his belt. His name tag read
AGENT 4637, REALITY, INC.

"Sorry about that, I had to return the phone to its owner.
If you'll just step this way, we'll fix this mess."

"Come again?" I asked.

"Your name is Mr. Reginald Wapcaplet, is it not? And you