Dreams in the Tower Part 1 by Vrana Andrew

Author:Vrana, Andrew [Vrana, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Distant Star Press
Published: 2014-08-06T07:00:00+00:00

5

There were still a few hours left in the work day, but Sabrina felt the Washington case was already as complete as it needed to be. The only thing left to do was to go after her, and that meant putting it in another officer’s hands. She felt a little bad for this girl, Stephanie; she didn’t have a history of criminal activity like some of the other cases, and she seemed genuinely to believe in her cause. But she chose to express her opinions with terrorism, by Silte Corp’s definition at least, and for that she had likely earned a prison sentence. Since the Corporate Freedom Act, entities like Silte had possessed the right to define the law as far as it directly related to protecting their business from outside threats. There was no question Washington and her associates were a threat.

Something about this case, though, still bothered Sabrina. And not just this case either: all the work Guardian had done since being employed by Silte. What Jason Delaney had said in their morning meeting, all that about justice… It’s not like she hadn’t thought about it before since starting with the GPA eighteen years ago; in fact, she had been thinking about it more and more lately. Things had seemed so much easier when Guardian worked exclusively for the US government. They might not have always done things by the books, but at least they had run in the tradition of justice in America. Now things were different. They were getting money, just like always, but they were operating strictly as a business, chasing a profit rather than taxpayer satisfaction. The proper definition of justice only mattered to them if it mattered to Silte Corp.

And then there was this Houston Warehouse report. Curious about Delaney’s comment, she had Googled it, without much success. She had found some reactions to the report in various seedy forums (lots of faceless repliers claimed to have “lost faith in humanity”), but direct information about it was strangely absent. She had thought about searching the Guardian files, just as Delaney had suggested, but paperwork had come up, pushing it from her mind.

Do I really want to see what’s there? All she could see happening, if there was really anything to it, was disillusionment, meaningless worry—it could even make her hate Guardian. She didn’t want that.

“I finished the Delaney report,” Erris said as she sauntered into the break room and took a seat on the couch beside Sabrina. In a breach of office formality she had unbuttoned her shirt so that a full two inches of cleavage was visible. “Finally. So you want to close the book on him?”

“For now.” There was no way Jason Delaney had been entirely truthful before. He wasn’t a top priority, but Silte’s Crisis Procedure might undermine that fact. “I have a feeling we’ll see him again.”

Erris made a childlike face of mock-disgust. “Do we have to stay in this shitty old building until then?”

“No, we’re leaving after tomorrow to go back to the San Francisco office.

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