HEDY LAMARR<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I'll be blunt, Miss Lamarr. The Organization I... represent, tends to facilitate things between the fractured states. Strictly grey-market."<br/><br/>"As an example, do you recall the food riots in Salt Lake last year? The government said that God would provide. The truth is far more... mundane."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong>"They were big riots Mr Johnston, state-wide almost. Thousands died in there if the news reports were to be believed. For your organization to be able to ship in that much you must be part of a pretty big set-up… and that leads me to ask what is Super Big Corp doing sending a courier aboard a tiny two-bit outfit like mine? Bigger aero transport companies could offer you much greater security."</strong><br/><br/>When he went on to talk about me I realised he'd been doing his homework. He made one mistake though, Winchester Flight had been operating longer than a year, a lot longer. I wondered how he could have such a glaring gap in his knowledge. I chose not to correct him.<br/><br/><strong>"You just summed my life story up in a few lines. Congratulations, there's nothing I think I can add. Though tell me, your request to come in the control gondola during departure… what was your reason for asking that? You know passengers are forbidden by Federal Law to be in the control cars during take off, landing and in emergencies."</strong><br/><br/>I took another sip of my drink. The bourbon was warming my insides nicely. I had resumed my seat behind my desk and now swung round and leaned the chair back, crossing my legs and making sure the skirt of my dress hung without creasing. Outside a lighter grey coloured the glass, Steele was taking us up to the cloud ceiling for a peek perhaps.