Pulling the knife, he leaned over the entwined figures on the bed. With one quick jab that went straight between two ribs and into the heart of his in...tended victim, that part was done. The body gave a quick jerk but his knife had done its work admirably, the wound bleeding very little and the girl hadn’t even woken up. He pulled the knife free, wiping the bloody blade on the sheets of the bed before replacing it in its sheath. Reaching over the dead body, he covered the girl’s face and nose,. “Aye you do have an urgent mission, and your MITI checks out. Go right to the wall over there and tell the IST control where you need to go. Centron will check you out and if he thinks you aren’t kosher you’re history.”“Who is Centron Sir?”“The ships AI, but unlike any you ever came across.”The other Marine spoke “This AI is authorized to make life and death decisions and has ways to make you disappear.”That was just what I needed, probably an Alien AI with an itchy trigger finger. Still I ran. Oru naal naan apadi avargal oopathai paarthukondu irupathai akka paarthu vital, naan aval ennai paarthala ilaiya endru theriyamaal irunthen. Sari mendum avalai paarka vendam endru antha idathile suvatrin meethu saainthu en sunniyai adithu konde irunthen, appozhuthu naan sirithum ethir parkatha vithamaaga akka vanthu naan kai adipathai paarthu vitaal.Aval ennai paarka naanum avalai paarka patharamaaga aagi vitathu, naan udane en sunniyai ulle vitu konden. En sunni 7” irukum naan siru vayathil. It was a good thing she had given me the instructions. We were not parked in the same place, and we didn't own the same model. Besides, the cars in the parking lot were big enough that I now had trouble seeing over them.When I opened the door to her little compact car -- green, of course -- my first inclination was to shove the seat back. It had been moved up so far that only someone really small would fit. Someone like... me. I tossed Jean's purse into the passenger seat and got behind the.