Odyssey (The Stork Tower Book 2) by Tony Corden

Author:Tony Corden [Corden, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-25T05:00:00+00:00

Leah logged out of the tower and after a quick meal and a long shower she logged in just before 7.30. There was half-an-hour real-time and an hour-and-a-half virtual-time before all her friends were due to arrive at the podium. Susan arrived exactly at 7.30 real-time and walked Leah through all the legal documents. Susan had convinced the owners of the property to amend the leasing arrangement to give Leah an incontestable option to extend the lease for a period of up to four years with a similar option to purchase the property at its current value during that time. Leah needed to pay one and a half million Australian dollars up front to cover the yearly lease. In addition, Susan had arranged a new state of the art DMR Sim Pod to be delivered and installed at the property at one o’clock in the afternoon. This cost another four hundred and fifty thousand dollars after the various tax rebates.

Susan had opened a corporate account for Leah and Leah transferred all her diamond and platinum coins into that account. This came to a total of 813,000 Virtual Credits of which the Dunyanin Administration charged her a two percent withdrawal fee. This left her with 796,740 Virtual Credits which was changed into Australian Dollars thereby losing another two percent. Susan arranged the payment of her tax bill, her lease, the rental of the facility for one week, the College courses, the Pod and a whole list of fees for internet connection, power connection, and various regulatory fees to establish her new company. In the end, she had 292,416 Dollars in the Account. She thought that was a lot until Susan reminded her she needed to find money to pay for security and other staff wages. Susan left after an hour-long meeting and Leah had less than thirty virtual minutes to prepare for the arrival of her friends.

As she rushed to choose something to wear, Gèng said, “Leah, I have clothing for you which is similar to my clothing the other day. I think it would be suitable for your meeting.”

Leah gave a tentative agreement and Gèng changed Leah’s to the traditional silk top and silk trousers. The top was white, rather than Gèng’s red, but with the same stylistic image of a stork embroidered on the right side in gold thread. The trousers were black with matching silk slippers. Leah checked the outfit from several angles and was pleased with the look.

Leah walked slowly out of the tower and down to the arrival podium. Mĕi was walking with her, so she slowed her walk to an amble. Leah was playing a game of tag with Mĕi when Amy arrived. Amy looked around in amazement, she had been expecting an apartment, but she found a whole new world. She stumbled down to Leah and hugged her, then said, “Leah, this is astounding, I have so many questions, but I’ll wait for the others, it’ll save you answering them twice.”

Leah introduced Amy to Mĕi who was standing back and growling at Amy.

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