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“Doesn’t happen et a party that gets too enthusiastic Most LCs are safer than teachers”

“They still run a risk, the oldest profession with the oldest cris People don’t kill with guns as a rule any motivator it used to be, too cheap, too easy to coation, and a whole new batch of motives When you brush all that away, the one fact is that people still terot people to talk to”

“What you need’s some sleep, kid”

“Let hi herself, she turned to her tele-link It was time to contact the victim’s parents

By the time Eve walked into the sumptuous foyer of Roarke’s midtown office, she’d been up for h theparents that their only daughter was dead She’d

stared at her monitor until the data swam in front of her eyes

Her follow-up intervieith Lola’s landlord had been its own adventure Since theabout the unpleasant publicity and the possibility of a drop-off in rentals

So ht, for human empathy

Roarke Industries, New York, was veryitself spread one hundred fifty stories into the Manhattan sky It was an ebony lance, glossy as wet stone, ringed by transport tubes and diaht skyways

No tacky Glida-Grills on this corner, shesecurity on their colorful air boards Out-of-doors vending was off lis quieter, if a little less adventuresome

Inside, thethree tony restaurants, a high priced boutique, a handful of specialty shops, and a small theater that played art films

The white floor tiles were a full yard square and glealass elevators zipped busily up and down, people glides zigzagged left and right, while diseuided visitors to various points of interest or, if there was business to be conducted, the proper office

For those anted to wander about on their own, there weremaps

Eve marched to a monitor and was politely offered assistance

“Roarke,” she said, annoyed that his name hadn’t been listed on the main directory