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Show XXV "Trouble comes in clusters." from The Memoirs of Aldous Phrapp Phrapp stopped at the door marked Privileged. He and Brandon had traveled the back streets of NewOxbridge to the Cloisters in the dusk of BauerWorlde's evening after an extended liquid supper at the HighStreet Alehouse. Then they had slipped through one of the back doors of the main building with Phrapp's PassThru chip. "Now..." began Phrapp, reaching into his longdoublet. He was brought up short by Brandon who bumped into him, bounded off, then leaned backward in a slow-motion topple toward the floor. "Hark!" whispered Phrapp, catching him in his arms. Brandon hiccuped loudly and seized Phrapp's cloak. "Go we now to do this thing?" He pulled the man's cloak toward him. "Sayest thou true?" "Aye, aye," said Phrapp, disengaging Brandon from his clothes. "But for now. be ye well still." He took the PassThru chip Brandon had keyed out of the security robot in the CentralAdTower and waved it in front of the door push. The door whispered open obediently. Grasping Brandon's arm, Phrapp slipped them both into the room, palmed on the lights, and locked the door behind them with the security catch. The two men stood there together, Brandon swaying, and looked at the Governor which was gleaming brightly in one corner of the room. "Looks full insi. . .insi. . .insigni. . . . " Brandon stopped in frustration. 237 |
