The courier was waiting for you at the office. Nondescript, black suit, the kind of pro that would never be seen making deliveries anywhere outside th...e glass towers of downtown Manhattan. Scratch that, maybe Tokyo, but he would have been shorter and well-armed. The package he handed you was barely more than a polymer envelope, vacuum-sealed with a pull tab. It beeped once when you opened it, no doubt notifying someone miles away that you had just taken an interest in their special delivery.. ”I decided to try a bit of levity.“A trio marriage; Residency; sleep deprivation; your husband having two kids with a third on the way? What’s to be stressed about?”She laughed, which was a good sign.“I guess the stress is legitimate, but it makes me think in crazy ways and feel like I’m not in control.”“The change from medical student to Resident was a pretty big one,” I said.“Sometimes it feels like I’m on a river, carried along by raging floodwaters, and just barely keeping my head above. Robert started to drink and his scurrilous attitude toward me got worse. I could not take it anymore and we got a divorce. As soon as the divorce was final, he just disappeared," She said as she finished her story.I lifted her off my lap, and picked up the pictures. I put them into the envelope. I popped the disk out of the laptop and put it in a case. I picked up everything and put them away in my computer room. I walked back into the kitchen."I think we need to get away, just the two of us.. "Well, hopefully you can get to the bottom of it. I'd be relieved if itwas just something wrong with the simulation, I just want to be sure." Hetook a long drink from his glass and then got up. "I've got anothermeeting. I'll check in with you tonight."I barely had time to give him a wave goodbye before he was off. He didhave a little empire to run. It was surprising enough that he took thetime to come up here and check in with me. I knew that was a mark of howimportant this project was to him..