CLOTHES MAKETH THE MAN — PART 40.

I looked through the mirror glass at Veronica, in the empty room. She looked tired, but not unhappily so.

Devina turned to me and said, “Go on in and clean her up. You might as well get acquainted, you’re going to be linked from here on in.”

With that Devina turned on her heel and left the room. I heard her click away down the corridor to some unseen room and the murmur of voices…