Delphi City by Bob Blanton

Author:Bob Blanton [Blanton, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Board Meeting – Jan 21st

“Hey, Kal, how’s it going?” Liz said as Kal boarded the Mea Huli.

“I’m great, how have you been,” Kal said, giving Liz a hug.

Liz gave Kal a sharp knee in the thigh, “I’ve been great.”

“That wasn’t nice,” Kal whispered in Liz’s ear as he looked at Samantha.

“Well, I owe you a few,” Liz whispered back. “Seems the new legs are working.”

“And hurting,” Kal whispered as he gave Liz an extra hard squeeze.

“Good morning, Kal,” Samantha said. “You’re looking energetic as usual. How was your week off?”

“Great,” Kal said. “Blake and I got in some fishing and a lot of sack time. But back to the salt mines.”

“Out of the way,” Blake said as he pushed Kal from behind.

“Jet jockeys are such prima donnas,” Kal said as he made his way to one of the lounge chairs.

“Blake, your face,” Samantha cried as she ran over to him.

“Nice, huh,” Blake said.

“I thought they couldn’t fix it,” Samantha said.

“New doctor, new techniques,” Blake said.

“But you still have a lot of scarring on the neck and forehead.”

“Dr. Metra says she can’t cut all my skin off at once,” Blake said. “She’ll be fixing it over the next couple of months. She says I’ll soon be as gorgeous as I ever was.”

“I’m so glad,” Samantha said, tears welling up in her eyes. “And the other scars?”

“She’s fixing everything,” Blake said.

“She just doesn’t know how to fix his mouth,” Marc said as he came down the ladder from the bridge.

“His mouth looks okay to me,” Samantha said with a puzzled look.

“He’s still as big a smart mouth as he ever was,” Marc said. He quickly dodged the punch Blake directed at his shoulder.

“Well, there is that,” Samantha said. “I hear it runs in the family.”

“Okay, let’s settle in and get down to business,” Marc said. “Samantha, you’re up.”

“We have a signed contract with the Cook Island government that covers our export of goods and our employment of the locals. We have to add housing on Arutanga to accommodate the increased population. They expect a lot of islanders to migrate there since it is the closest land base where our workers can live.”

“On my list,” Blake said. “I plan to just use money.”

“Works for me,” Marc said. “How’s our production facility coming?”

“They completed the main part of the building while Kal and I were out fishing,” Blake said. “And just in time; we’ve started putting in the production for the polysteel today. Dr. Zelbar is anxious to get it going, he wants to see it work on a big scale. Dr. Scheele and our manufacturing guy have laid out the process. I’m guessing three to four months before we’re ready to start building the city.”

“Maybe you’ll find ways to speed it up once everything is running,” Marc said.

“We’ll try,” Blake sighed. “Sam got us the approval to go vertical, so I’ve given that to the contractor. He says two weeks.”

“Catie?”

“I’m still waiting on a shell for the Lynx. It sounds like it’s going to be a month at least,” Catie said.

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