" Hmm ... Okay, that's workable. Believable even. Should I be getting worked up over what we might find?" I wouldn't. Chances are there won't be anyth...ing to see. Anything big enough to have something left when it hit the ground should have made a good bit of noise and some sort of explosion when it hit. If there is though, it could still be pretty hard to find." We'll work out the details. Its summer vacation, we've got plenty of time." Alright, you want me to start the ball rolling then, ask. " I downloaded the chip and waited until he said he had received it."You're right about one thing. It never hurts to have the Corps owe you a favor. Keep in touch from time to time and let me know what's happening. I don't want to find out all of it by watching the trid."After we had eaten supper I took a printout to Thunder. "This is a list of the project that Pusan R&D are working on. One military, two different Cyber enhancements and two different Simsense chips." Da military is probly for. "Iremember that. It was the first ceremony at the river, wasn't it? Icarried two babies into the river, and he was the first one handed tome. He was such a cutie." The baby had a look of bliss on his face ashe stared up into River's eyes as she leaned down to give him a kisson the forehead."Look," Liesl noted. "All the people in the background are blurry.You can see Edith there, barely, but everyone further back is just ablur." That is depth of field," April explained. "I used a telephoto. I hung up and threw the phone on the passenger seat.This was an emergency, I felt, so pulled off onto the hard shoulder. I took the phone that was ringing again, walked up to the corrugated road barrier, and hurled that phone as far into the unlit inky blackness of the empty countryside as I could.Almost as soon as it left my hand I knew I would have trouble contacting my two kids because their numbers were recorded on that phone and nowhere else. I knew I had Sophia Elizabeth’s work number on.
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