文档介绍：Ringo, John & Co. - Legacy of the Aldenata 07 - Sister
Sister Time
John Ringo &
Julie Cochrane
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 abilities to 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 plexity of the
task, she clipped a line to the rope above her, deftly secured the two suction cups of plicated 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 there-perfect 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 postwar surplus office space. The phenomenon made the middle
floors of skyscrapers in most major cities very convenient for people in her profession but, despite its drabness, it
did tend to trigger a certain wistfulness for a world she'd never really gotten to know. Still, it was eerily silent,
beyond the muted