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Chapter One
Tuesday 10/12/54
Chicago, USA, Sol III
 The dark figure dropping over the edge of the building could have given lessons in camouflage to a
Himmit. Well, almost. Actually, the bodysuit and balaclava she was wearing owed rather more of their
stealth abilitiesto the Himmit than the reverse. The rappelling rope was more conventional, as were the
multivision goggles. A clever observer, had she been observed, would have noticed that the better gear
was old, and the cheaper gear new, suggesting that the agent or her employer had seen better days.


She stopped at the thirteenth floor, fourth window from the North end. The tool she pulled from a clip
on her web gear was something like a monomolecular boxcutter. Working with a fluidity that belied the
complexity of the task, she clipped a line to the rope above her, deftly secured the two suction cups of
the complicated apparatus to the window, tightened them down, and excised a wide oval of the thick
glass. She pulled the glass piece free and allowed it to dangle, swinging her feet through the hole and
slipping inside.


The room she entered was dusty from extreme disuse, and she wouldn't have braved it at all if the
threadbare carpeting hadn't been thereтАФperfect for hiding footprints that otherwise would have been
glaringly obvious. The carpeted cubicle walls, now a moth-eaten, mottled gray, had the occasional rusty
bolt showing through the cracked plastic. The dusty, crumbling particle board contraptions that used to
pass for "desks" for corporate underlings dated the room as being part of the post-war surplus office
space. The phenomenon made the middle floors of skyscrapers in most major cities very convenient for