The Long View (April Series Book 14) by Mackey Chandler

The Long View (April Series Book 14) by Mackey Chandler

Author:Mackey Chandler [Chandler, Mackey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2023-09-26T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 14

“How are we doing with the preparations to go back to Prairie?” Heather asked.

“I anticipate we’ll be ready,” Bobby said. “The Earth bureaucracy has made some things difficult. Mr. Foy had quite a list of drugs and medications he wanted to have available and we can’t just buy them. We had to get prescriptions from licensed veterinaries. It was the same across all the developed countries. Vets were afraid to provide them without a specific animal with an ear tag number and a case history to tie it all together. They can lose their license if any step of the regulations is skipped. Fortunately, some of the third-world countries aren’t as fussy. We had no trouble buying small field equipment from Japan but getting them lifted to orbit was an ordeal. We had to partially disassemble them to meet weight and dimensional limits. We’re doing a full tear-down when they get here anyway, so that was just a matter of carefully documenting the partial disassembly in Japan. The Hawaiian fellow, Nick, we hired as a temp is doing the rest of the tear-down here. He worked out very well and we hired him for at least a six-month gig.”

April looked up with sudden interest. “What’s this Nick’s last name?” she asked.

“Naito,” Bobby said. “It doesn’t sound very Hawaiian, does it?”

April was incredulous. “Don’t you know who he is? Didn’t Jeff tell you?”

“Jeff hasn’t come by to watch us disassembling the harvester and tractor. I’ve never had a chance to introduce Nick to him. Jeff can’t involve himself with everything that needs to be done. There aren’t enough hours in the day for him to be personally involved with everything. It’s good that he can delegate and trust us to take care of certain things ourselves. Nick has been a self-starter and seems very intelligent. What do you mean by who he is? All I know is the temp agency sent him for a one-day evaluation and I was pleased to keep him.”

“Jeff already knows him. I’m not telling this well,” April said, frustrated. “Naito is, was I guess, the Hawaiian official who got Jeff and Love together on the island to hammer out our treaty with North America.

“Oh. I don’t pay much attention to politics,” Bobby admitted. “I wouldn’t have remembered Love being North America’s guy if you hadn’t just mentioned him. If he and Jeff know each other why did he hire through an agency?”

“I don’t know. It’s even stranger than that. He was my caretaker for my Hawaiian home. He sent me a message he had to quit, but he made sure one of his cousins took over to keep the place safe and occupied. But not a word to me that he was coming to the Moon. My neighbor from down there didn’t say a word either. None of it makes sense,” April said.

“He worked a government job and took care of your house too?” Bobby asked.

“He was my caretaker when he was a revolutionary, long before they won and he got a respectable ministry position.



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