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“What if your friend’s not here?” Peaches asked as Amos poked at the elevator’s call button

“Then we think of so else”

“Any idea what?”

“Still nope”

He was more than half-surprised when the elevator doors opened Flood dae could have ruined the et stuck halfway up, and they could die in it When he selected the club level, the screen clicked to life A broad-faced woman with a scar across her upper lip sneered out at him

“The fuck you want?”

“Amos Friend of Erich’s”

“We got no fucking handouts”

“Not looking for any,” Amos said “Want to talk about a job”

“No jobs either”

Amos smiled “You new at this, Butch? I have a job I’o tell him there’s some psycho in the elevator wants to talk with hiuy calls himself Amos, and Erich tries not to look surprised and tells you to let me up and —”

“For fuck’s sake!” Erich’s voice was distant, but recognizable “Let him up, or he’ll talk all day”

Butch scowled into the screen and blinked out to the blue arcology menu system But the car started up

“Good news is he’s here,” Amos said

Erich’s office looked the same as the last ti the