Most of yesterday’s meetings had been held with such loosely involved parties that no one in the room had even had any suspicions about the ambassador’s connection to the attack. All she had to do was smile and give them the same bullshit she fed the press, and afterwards everyone could more or less happily return to minding their own businesses. Today had been no different, except this time, the people in the room knew exactly why Ambassador Greer was smiling and that everything she had said was a lie, but in the end, the result was the same, because there was absolutely nothing they could do about any of it. Maggie loved meetings like that. She walked out of the room with even wider a smile than she had started with and shivered with gratification for the entire trip back home.<br/><br/><div class="ToggleTriggerAnchor bbCodeSpoilerContainer">
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</div><br/>The freeway that spanned from one end of the station to the other was barely comparable to planetary superhighways, but at least there were a few locations along its length that reminded Maggie of urban Earth: structures in the shape of metropolitan skyscrapers, even with strategically placed vegetation to create a harmony of nature and civilization that was typical of modern Terran worlds… but of course, there was no sky, which was always a disappointment whenever Maggie made the mistake of looking up. Furthermore, the plants on the station were purely an architectural choice, while on a densely populated planet they actually served a purpose.<br/><br/><div class="ToggleTriggerAnchor bbCodeSpoilerContainer">
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</div><br/>“Thank you, Harvey. I’ll walk from here,” Maggie said to her driver and for one more chance at pretending not to exist inside a mere metal shell quite literally in the middle of nowhere, she stepped out of the car on the front yard of the high-rise building where her empty apartment awaited on top floor. The concrete walkways that led to the front doors were decorated with rows of neatly trimmed, low hedges with enough space in between to let even large parties of people pass through, and by the street, the concrete pavement was much wider than necessary, which apparently was the perfect place for someone to park a limo.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>