Chapter 11: A Request For Help
A day after the interview one of the closers was walking through a farmers market. Where before there had been several dozen farmers selling the fruits of their labor now there might be three dozen farmers selling their very limited selection fresh produce. He felt someone in his pocket. He reached for the hand he thought was pick pocketing him but he wasn’t fast enough. When he checked his pocket he found a note to Hozenbur. It was on a small envelope, with her name on it. He was tempted to open it to see what it said, or possibly to just not give it to her. But to do otherwise would surely get his own filed closed by Hozenbur.
He took the note back to the safe house and gave it to Martha Hozenbur.
“Who gave this to you Abu?” the team leader asked after she read the note. It was a request for a meeting with one of her contacts, an agent from the Republic of the Stars.
“I felt someone try to pick my pocket.” Abu replied, “Whoever it was; was damnable fast. By the time I tried to stop it they were gone and I found this in my pocket.”
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