Deep Pink by Sarah A Hoyt

Author:Sarah A Hoyt [Hoyt, Sarah A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Goldport Press
Published: 2019-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

Odd

IT TOOK HER FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE PHONE. Not to talk to this man, but to get hold of him. It was after work hours, so Nancy called his cell phone and got nothing, called a phone number that was his wife or girlfriend – judging from the sounds coming over the phone and the lively discussion of, “Where has Odell got to now?” The conversation veered into something wrong with the cat, Tesla, and from that to … something else, and finally Nancy was given the phone number of Jolie LaChance who, “Should be at the lab with him.” That number once called got the phone handed to Odell, who apparently had forgotten to charge his phone, but was really interested in our story, in outline, and told us to, “Come along to the lab.”

He met us at the lobby of one of the not terribly expensive high-rises at the edge of the gentrified area. From décor and the general feeling of not being particularly well kept up, it was obvious this multi-story building just outside Dinkhelsbuhl proper had gone up in the eighties, in the expectation of great amounts of business before Cleveland, like all the post-industrial Midwest had migrated en masse south and west, leaving these buildings untenanted or cheap. Or both. From the sign up front, with a bunch of “names” missing from the large board indicating the tenants, it was obvious a lot of people had moved out, and others moved in who did not advertise their presence.

Though to be fair Dr. Odell Brant did advertise. Or at least his organization, Infinite Mind, did. Of course, by that name it could be anything from a puzzle company to a testing service.

What it was might have been something between those.

Dr. Brant met us in the lobby, which was mostly deserted. He was a middle aged man, at that undefinable age between 40 and 60 that some men hit. Lived in, but not old. Spare to the point of extreme thinness, he had reddish hair that had faded to blond, or blond hair with a hint of red, a lot of it, and it stood up in all directions in the ever popular Einstein look, except he kept it clipped to about two inches of length. His ears stuck out of the fuzz, his nose was tall and thin, and he wore oversized glasses. His jeans and grey T-shirt seemed oversized too. He’d have looked like a cartoon character, except that his blue eyes behind his oversized lenses looked very serious, very attentive, and incredibly intelligent.

He wore a massive badge on a lanyard, and shook our hands firmly, in turn. “Odell,” he said, when we addressed him as Dr. Brant. “Or Odd. My wife often calls me Odd. So does Jolie, my assistant. Come on. Let me take you up to where we can talk. What Nancy said made it sound like you have the solution to something that’s been bothering me for a couple of years.”

He led us to an elevator, which to my surprise, had a proximity sensor for the badge.

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