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CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
 CHAPTER 1
“SURE WE HAVE the new software,” Ross Murdock said, scrupulously unaware of his
landlady peeping up at him over the tops of her spectacles as she drowned her potted
plants for what was probably the fourth time that day. “It’s a fine spreadsheet. Plenty of
new features.”
Gordon Ashe, following him up the stairs inside the hall, looked amused, but said
nothing until Ross had shut the apartment door behind him and locked it.
“Nosy landlady, I take it?” Ashe commented.
“The tenants here are better than TV, she seems to think. At least from the gossip she
rattles off to Eveleen when she can catch her.”
Ashe and Ross both surveyed the plain living room with its garage-sale furnishings.
Eveleen had done her best to add homey touches: a brightly colored braided rug on the
floor, a few very hardy houseplants, and one or two ancient artifacts brought up from the
past—nothing to raise eyebrows, should anyone drop in who knew about such things. But
Ross and Eveleen knew the real stories behind them—sometimes even had known the
person who had made them, thousands of years before.
Ashe shook his head. “Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, if you ask me. Project Star
would be happy enough to issue you living quarters, and the ones married couples get are
fairly plush. A lot nicer than this, if you want to know the truth.”
“But underground. And it’s still there, under their control. I’ve worked for the Project
just about my entire adult life, and I respect everyone in it, but I want my own place. My
own space. And so does Eveleen,” Ross added.
Ashe opened a hand. “But what happens when you’re gone on a mission? It’s Project
Star that handles your pay and banking, right?”