"FWLS32" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Fattening up, Eddie?" I asked. (He only allowed me to call
him Eddie. Anybody else usually would end up with thier knees
bending the wrong way.) "I've never seen you this hungry
before."

"Some guy hired me to hijack some tech shipment from the
HAAFF," Edward replied. "Gotta tank up, in case I have to miss
lunch. How come you're not eating, Nad?"

"Oh, tish tosh, had a bit too much last night," Nad said,
adjusting his traditional yellow tie. "The kids just showed up
last night with some cockamamie excuse for being gone for a year.
Kids today. One of the few things in my life that can't be
controlled with dynamite other than my wife."

"Yeah, how is Jane?" Monk asked, poking his usual breakfast
of toast and eggs around the plate. It's funny, he usually plays
with his food for 5.6 minutes before taking a bite. Maybe, when
he was very young, toast and eggs killed his father.

"She's fine," Nad said. "Still insists on going to that
knife-throwing competition over at Port Wolf, even though we
don't have enough money for public transit."

"Quit rubbin' it in," Monk grumbled. "I told you I'd have
your lousy ship fixed by next week. I've gotta back order, some
big time franchise trader got his ass kicked and needs patchups."

"If it's a matter of money, I can always send Fuse down to
lean on you a little," Nad calmly suggested. Funny thing about
Nad, his threats were so soothing that you'd have to hear them
twice to catch thier real meanings.

"No, just order-of-arrival. He arrived first," Monk
clarified, running the gauntlet and finally having a bite of his
toast.

Doc Holiday just grunted. He's not a morning person, that
that's usually all he contributes to the breakfast banter.

"This seat taken?" said a skinny-sort of female human,
approaching the breakfast table. This was very odd, because I
thought the CLOSED sign was hung on the window. I keep the place
closed for breakfast so we won't be disturbed.

"I'm sorry, we're closed," I smiled to the business type
person. "We'll open in about twenty minutes for breakfast,
however, if you'd like to come back then."

"I was told that most of the business operators in the port