"Joe Hutsko - Nico's Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hutsko Joe)

because his rank is restricted to the
first and lower levels only, Taylor has
only a vague idea of who or what
occupies those higher floors. He
knows, for instance, there is
administration... an in-house medical
suite complete with pharmacy... and
advanced research and development,
this the most interesting to him, but
also the most mysterious. Oh he has
some idea of what's going on. The
occasional small slip overheard in
hushed exchanges. He has always
assumed the lab is funded by one arm
or another of Defense. And being
intelligent himself, he intuits that his
work, the things he works on at his
level and downstairs with Nikko, are
processed into components or
technologies that wind up in things
that eventually find their way higher
up the tree and almost certainly
beyond these sterile walls altogether,
into the real world. It's all very top
secret and it isn't his place to ask, so
he can only go on what he envisions.
He simply does his job, only
occasionally wondering if he'll ever
move (or be moved) to some higher
level, in some new but impossible-to-
know role.
He isn't unhappy with his career, his
life, though it might seem so. Each day
working with Nikko is more or less the
same as it has been going on four
years now. He stops to give this a
moment of thought. Was it four years
already? Before Nikko, Taylor's
memory is not always clear. He knows
he's been at his job since college, but
it's only these last few years with
Nikko that Taylor feels any sense of
connectedness with his immediate
past and present. If he really let
himself run with it. Toy lor would
eventually realize that's when the
curtailed and recurring dream began:
when he met Nikko.

As for his future, he gives it little