Episode 301: Hard Places, Part 2
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Joshua even says it.
Joshua: You’re boned.
Rina: (still smarting) You wish.
Joshua: Not you.
Rick: Not yet, at least. (laughs) It’s still 24 hours before you get 3D imaged.
Nika: (to Rina) Arden will probably want to go. Cuz he’s got zero modesty.
Rina: Yeah, he’s got no modesty issues.
Nika: But just in case—no sex in front of the cameras. You can go do that with anybody else if they ask, but it’s not gonna be with me in front of a camera.
No joke.
Rick: What’s going on?
Nika: Nothing.
Rina: (to Nika) I’ll be willing to go with you as a chaperone. It’s the least I can do.
Nika: Oh, yes, you will.
Now that the matter is settled, or at least as settled as it can be for the nonce, we all turn our energies to meeting our passenger to be ….interviewed….for the job of conveying him to Blue Sun. The accommodations at Rockwell have two distinctive grades: economy and not-economy. The economy grade accommodations are of the coffin-hotel style. Self-contained sleeping tubes tall enough to sit upright in, wide enough to hold an adult male, and outfitted with the amenities that keep the occupant from going crazy, they have privacy curtains, miniature Cortex screens, and built-in appliances like clocks and radios in the dashboard. Luckily for us, Faria is staying in the not-economy end of things, cushy suites more suitable for high-powered business executives and high-rollers. We find his door and press the page button and are buzzed in.
We walk in to the sitting room and see a man garbed in the robes of a Shepherd, putting something on. As we file in, we notice that he’s a multiple amputee, missing his right arm and his left leg. He turns around and dons his hat.
Joshua: (respectfully) Shepherd.
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