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“I don’t want any trouble,” he said.
Max materialized a gold coin from his pouch. “This is rare tower-zone currency, which will fetch you a very high price from black market collectors. This could potentially feed you and your family for years. What do you say? Will you help us follow that garbage truck?”
The man gulped and took the coin and then turned back to face the street. The driver put his foot on the gas peddle and they began to trail the garbage truck from the tower-zone.
* * *
Agent Paul watched the two student climbers get into the taxi cab.
He watched it all from inside a nearby telephone booth.
I’ll have to inform the higher ups, Agent Paul thought to himself, pulling out a cell phone.
The kids were impressive. They had broken through one of the sewer wards and were now tracking a tower-zone garbage truck. Agent Paul was impressed but also confused. What exactly did these two kids want?
He placed his cell phone to his ear as he rang his boss.
“They haven’t spotted me yet,” Agent Paul said to his superior. “I’m following them now. I’ll do as directed.”
71
Sakura sat in the lobby of the top floor of the climber’s guild.
She tapped her hands on her knees nervously.
“He’ll be right with you,” said a secretary from behind a desk. The woman went straight back to whatever else she was working on. She had done her job to assuage Sakura’s concerns about the meeting running late, what more could she do?
Not much, Sakura figured. Still, she didn’t understand why she had been called here in the first place.
The top floor of the climbers guild belonged solely to the climber president. There was a lobby the elevator opened up to and then a doorway to a large open office where the climber president resided.
Was she being promoted? There was only one job higher than her own...the presidency itself...and she really didn’t see the climber president retiring any time soon. He loved the job too much.
The secretary picked up a phone and then placed it down again.
“He’ll see you now,” said the secretary.
Sakura stood up and strutted into the climber president’s office.
The man sat behind his desk, leaning forward with his elbows on the wood, fingers steepled together. He had a grave expression on his face.
“Good afternoon, Sakura,” said the climber president. “I have much I need to tell you.”
* * *
Max and Casey sat in the back seat of the cab watching through the window as the garbage truck from the tower-zone drove through the traffic-filled streets of the outer-rim.