by thalasso

The next day she went to the office to pick up some things. Director Ferraday was in meetings all day. No problem there. While she was packing things at her desk, Boris Vaslov dropped by.

"Alrrready leaving, my dearrr?" he said with his strong Russian accent. He used to work for the KGB, before he got on the right side.

"No, just picking up a few items. I don't want to carry all the stuff next Friday."

"Verrrry cleverrr! Before I left my office in Moscow, I had to leave everrrrything behind, not to raise any suspicion. All I took with me was …"

Harry didn't really listen. Vaslov was telling stories all the time, in favor about the good old times of the cold war. Things had changed a bit since then. Nowadays the guys from the KGB were respected colleagues and the political friends from yesterday had become mortal enemies.

"… but I got that rrreal good fixed, just to be on the safe side, as my old mother used to say!"

"Good for you." Harry nodded politely. She liked Boris, but at times he was a menace to listen to. Before he could dig up another story, Nathan Muir relieved her.

"Boris, can you give me a hand please with that Russian translation? Hi Harry, leaving already?"

The morning went by like that. Old friends dropping by saying good bye. Harry chatted a lot but she was also looking forward to chat at a different place and to search more books.

In the afternoon she went home and online. This time she searched the floating platforms of Saja. She cleared the place in no time. Not too many locations to place a book. After two hours she had been everywhere and she tried to get inside some places. Getting into the Poyoa Mill was easy enough but nothing to be found there. Finally she checked the six houses.

She went to the Veeloa House close to Zoyoa Garden right in front of the closed door. She pressed her virtual nose on the door, took out her hoverpack and hopped on. While the pack stayed outside she was drawn into the house.

The walls looked unfamiliar translucent from inside. The place was completely empty, except for that book …

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