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before October 6th. Thank you."


"Hmm." Cochran looked at his wall clock, then went into his bedroom and wakened
Adrielle. Her nubile body caused a pulse of desire, but he tuned it down. He had
business to take care of. "Time to greet the day," he said. "You told me you had
classes this afternoon. Cereal and sugar are on the table; juice, milk, jam and
margarine are in the fridge. Bread's in the bread drawer. Put your dishes on the
counter. I'll be on the Web. On visual part of the time, so don't come in before you
leave."


She mustured a sleepy affirmative. He took her chin in a hand. "I'll try to call you this
evening," he added, his voice soft now. He kissed her lingeringly, almost changing his
mind about calling Ngunda's administrative assistant that day. "Or you can call me,"
he added. He watched her round firm rear sway through the door of the bedroom bath.
Normally he discouraged women from phoning, but Adrielle was the best he'd bedded
in a year. Enthusiastic, talented, creative, and not into power games like a lot of
college girls.


In the kitchen he skinned a banana, poking the peel into the "Tasmanian Eats-All."
Then he dialed a tall coffee with fat-free creamer and three spoonfuls of honeyтАФhis
default settingтАФand ate a mini-breakfast over the comics in the morning paper. He'd
never found the comics as entertaining on the WebWorld or fax.


You're a fogey, he told himself.


He left the kitchen, taking his electrothermal coffee mug with him, and at the
computer, dialed Lor Lu. A receptionist cleared the call, and the brown face appeared
again on Cochran's screen, an unfocused fragment of office in the background.


"Mr. Cochran! I'm Lor Lu. Thank you for calling."


"You said you had a business proposal to discuss."


"Right. Mr. Aran liked both your interview and your style. And of course you have an
established reputation. He'd like to have you cover his activities in a Millennium
context. Regularly that is. You would accompany him on his tours, and spend part of
the non-tour time here at the Ranch, learning and writing about Millennium."


"If you're offering me a job, I already have one."