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Run for the Shadows (Pt 5)
A Nano-Tech Thriller in 13 Chilling Parts
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Run for the Shadows
“This is running now,” says Yasmina. “I’m nine years old when my mother walks out on us for a year. My party trick is playing piano with one hand and doing calculus with the other. I’m so happy in my father’s care. I don’t know he’ll be dead in four years. I think it’s all forever. Every day of that long summer, we go to the meadow at the back of the house …”
As she talks, she wanders about the seventh-floor office of the Selaphor Biosystems Building in a dreamy, floaty state.
Kessler gets up from the floor, stunned. The shock or whatever it was had sent him across the huge office like a thrown doll. Now, alarmed and agitated, he follows Yasmina. He sees more fighter jets over Kingston-upon-Thames. As he watches, one pilot ejects for no apparent reason and the jet screeches on, stable at first, then hurtling and twisting and dropping towards the horizon.
“He’s a good talker, my papa,” says Yasmina, “and a good listener. On one morning walk, I ask him about…
