"FWLS51" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Whee," Benton stated.

"Yahoo," Jody added.

"Come come now! You should be happier. I mean, this is a
big deal. We're STOPPING the RAIN!"

"I dunno, I guess it's just not the same unless it's in the
city," Benton said. "Nobody we know'll see it. But hey, we've
come all this way, might as well try... umm... Mitch?"

"Yes?" I asked, opening the weather control device's box.

"The tower's closed."

I stopped unpacking the box, and turned to look out the
window. At the base of the tower was an elevator. And on that
elevator was a sign. And on that sign were the words SORRY,
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS.

"This is not a problem," Mitch said. "We just go up there
anyway. So it's being repaired! Probably just a leaky water
fountain or a broken window or something."

"I dunno, looks to me like the elevator's busted. Notice
the broken cable?"

Sure enough a frayed end of cable swung, unconnected, about
twenty feet up. Hmm.

"Can we set it off on the ground?" Benton asked.

"Not that I know of. It needs to be set off high in the
air..."

"Well, we're screwed," Jody said. "Fun trip. Let's beat
it."

I paused. No, we couldn't 'beat it'. I came here for a
reason : repair myself. And dammit, it was GOING to happen.

I scanned the skies for something, ANYTHING that could get
us up that high.

"Jody, fire up the palmtop. See that traffic shuttle up
there?" I asked, pointing to the tiny shuttlecraft, barely
visible through the rain. "Bring it down here if you can."

Jody shrugged. "Alright. Shouldn't be too much of a
challenge, actually..." she jacked in, and began wandering around