She thought of him as 'The Traveler, ' going so far as to put that name her file of MPC users.The Traveler had many, many subjects. Thousands of them ...just within the 500 km radius. From his schedule, Alex guessed that he made ten stops on his 'tour' every month, at three days each. That meant he had twenty to thirty stops, assuming that he stopped at each one every cycle. If he had three to five thousand subjects in each city, he would be in control of perhaps 100,000 to 150,000 people. That. When he listened to his Mother’s footsteps climbing up, Ravi’s heart started beating fast in anticipation. He listened eagerly for signs that his Mother is about to have her bath. After hardly about 10 minutes, Ravi heard his Mother’s door opening and he understood that his Mother is going for her bath. Waiting for one more minute to let his Mother enter and lock the bathroom, Ravi silently opened his door and slipped out. He could not hear any sound from the bathroom. Within seconds Ravi was. He wondered what she would think of him if she knew that the man who had been sitting with him was now fucking his wife. Would she laugh at him? She returned with two menus and the wine list, explaining that one menu was the day’s specials and the other one, A’ La Carte. “The gentleman from Room 49 has explained that everything is to go onto his account.”Alan looked up at her. She was smiling or perhaps it may have been a smirk. He was feeling very self-conscious. “I’ll come back in ten. He shuddered, and his eyes grew wide at the flood ofsensations that ran through his body.The voice came over the phone again. "Enjoy your new life, Geri. You'll betoo busy now to be bothering me ever again." There was a click and then thedial tone.But as Andy... Yes, _Andy_ watched, the phone changed color, shifting fromblack to eggshell white. Then tbe improvised table, a board over two milkcrates, turned into a real coffee table with a cherrywood finish. Andycould move again. He stood up and.