So I have bought a pig farm and that is where we are going now after the party. Like a big version of Martin’s shack up the mountain it is totally authentic wood-frame construction Rex is professionally intrigued. Dark wood with lines on it. Smells of years. Shaped like a T with room for all of us albeit little rooms like cells. Firepit and a stove for cooking and really good water pressure coming down the mountain from the Kircheisen peak and we can look up and see Die Festung and know we are going to fuck it up.

All mod cons because this is Switzerland you can go off-grid here if you want to but you never have to they will bring the grid to you so we have Internet and three-phase power.

And pigs.

Doc and I have the bedroom on the end of the T and we sleep and listen to the sound of the river and the rain on the roof and in the morning early we wake to livestock and the natural world and I could stop here. I could just stop and be this person forever. I have a bajillion squidzillion euros and a new identity and a new face and why the fuck not who would look for Jack Price here now that he is dead?

Volodya would, I guess. But even he—I mean sooner or later you leave business undone.

He’d get it.

I wonder if Doc would—

Oink snuffle. OINK.

Sidebar I bought a pig farm. You will recall that Doc requires pigs for her evil plan and it is not easy to buy pigs individually just for shits and giggles especially in Europe where they care about the welfare of animals—

OINK snuffle oink OINK—

They say Hey Jack why do you want this pig? And you say that you want to use it to rob a mountain fortress and if you grant (what is obvious) that you do not know but it does not seem impossible that the pig will get exploded or liquidized (because: Doc) then they say you cannot have the pig in fact you cannot have any pig ever.

But if you say you want to buy a pig farm that is different because then it is obvious that the reason you want to buy a pig farm is that you want to farm pigs.

Oink snuffle oink.

Oink oink.

ZNNNEEEEzzzznaaaarrrrRRRR—

Oh yeah I also—

Oink snuffle oiZZZZORCH—

SQUEEEEEEEEE—

I also bought a—

ZORCH SQUEE ZORCH squee ZORCH gggggtttgg—

I have—

ZORCH splat.

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I have also bought a hyperviolent Kircheisen door through a shell company in another shell company in another shell company and lalala. So now we have both pigs and robot death door.

Oink snuffle—

It turns out these things should not be stored in the same room.

SQUEEEEOINK SPLAT—

“Price!”

“Sorry Doc.”

“Stop killing my fucking pigs!”

“It was not me it was the—”