This was something new, not only the tactic but this object. It landed with a loud thud, making a small crater. I watched it stand up, my eyes widen...ed. It was robot but in a human form; a female form. It was completely in cased in a smooth silver skin. Its eyes opened, the glowed a sky blue…the same color as the dress worn by Marina. A crude face formed as well, one that vaguely looked familiar to me. Slowly it stepped towards me and it spoke, ‘Hello Dave…you recognize me don’t you? I. It's very remote and the only means of communication with the outside world will be via your mobile phone, so you need to give it a lot of thought as to whether you feel comfortable being with two strangers in such remote surroundings.''One other problem is that it has to be this coming Saturday as they fly back to Africa first thing on Monday morning and you'll probably have to stay overnight there. A car will take you on Saturday afternoon and collect you the same time on Sunday so you have. I looked over her information and then looked at her personal items. I checked them off the list. Everything accounted for, although it probably should all be thrown out. Standard policy was to release the personal affects when we met with the family, so I stuck them with her and sat down to call the family. I got no answer.The next day I called, and then the next. There was no answer. We called the hospital and they could not find any records. It seemed she had just appeared in the hospital.. Thank you."So much for vacation time. Now what do I do? Tell Sally? Not yet. Take Johnson out? Risky and probably bad for Ros. I needed a strategy and I didn't have one yet. Ros would probably be on the road with Johnson while he was on his book tour. I didn't think anything would happen that would endanger her there. If anything, she would be vulnerable in Dubrovnik if she went there with him.It also brought up some other questions. Johnson was rich far beyond what we might think of a.
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