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"Afternoon, Mr Mason Have a good day out there?"
"The best, Jih?"
"Well, that depends, Mr Mason How do you feel about passingyour hand inout my wallet, I produced uard station’s miniature air lock It would be disinfected before Jaloves when he picked it up to run it through his scanner Protocol Gotta love it, because anything else would lead to h his syste, I stuck ritting ht on top ofinto the field isn’t the zo It’s all the da looks to be in order," James said, still cheerfully He dropped my card back into the lockbox "Welco my hand His welcome was the only confirmation that I’d actually passed my blood test Unlike the private units, which have to show you your results, business units often display only to the people who need to know--that is, the ones whose job it is to kill you if you fail
Offering him a wave, which he a hiraphy
Building underground in California isn’t strictly safe, but neither is walking on the streets That’s the brilliant logic that led to the construction of underground tunnels connecting the co’s tunnel is about the length of a football field As I walked along it, I a just how many zombies would be able to pack themselves inside if there were ever a lapse in security I had just reached the conclusion that the tunnel could hold so they were all of average size, when I reached the door, swiped h the scanner, and was home
The building consists of three floors and ten apartments: two on the first floor, four each on the second and third My staff has three of the four third-floor apartar, who’s so deaf that she probably wouldn’t notice if we started holding weekly raves on the roof Becks calls her "an old dear" and brings her cookies In exchange, Mrs Hagar no longer threatens to lob grenades at us every time we run into each other in the downstairs lobby A few chocolate chips are a s vaporized while you’re picking up the er has one of the first-floor apartments He’s almost never there, and we’re all pretty sure he has another residence somewhere outside of the city Someplace safer A lot of people think they’re safer in the country because there aren’t as many bodies capable of auns, as George used to say I’ll take my chances with the cities
The other first-floor apartment is mine It’s not h to let me feel like I have a little privacy A little privacy can make all the difference in the world I pressed my palm to the test pad for yet another blood test, unlocked the front door, and stepped inside, alone at last
Alone? asked George, sounding dryly a my eyes, I let iveroom, news scroll on mute on the main monitor, and prep the shower for a decontaed," said the polite voice of the apart the ith a series of muted beeps as it activated the various requested utilities I stayed where I was for a fewout the moment I could be anywhere in that moment I could be in my apartment Or I could be back in my bedrooia’s roo for my turn at the shower I could be anywhere
I openedto win any beautiful-ho room full of boxes, computer equipment, and racks of weaponry; a bedroom full of boxes, computer equipment, and racks of weaponry; an office full of boxes, computer equipment, and racks of weaponry; and a bathroom where the floor space is almost completely consumed by a top-of-the-line shower and decontamination unit No weaponry in there, at least--just ah these days that I could probably take the particularly weird that day
The air in the apartun oil, and bleach Several people have said it doesn’t feel like anybody lives there, and what they don’t see as I’ there, I never have to think about the fact that I’ there alone
It took me fifteen etthe old ones in a biohazard-secure bin for later sterilization I checked the GPS readout oncoordinates, the rest of the tea their chance to check out Jimmy’s substandard taste in pnGood Thata clean jacket off a stack of survivalistal a Coke froe