Showing posts with label hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hotel. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2014

28 - I Don't Understand


I had thought the Wandering Koala and his companions would be on guard after my assault on them on the Jupiter, but it appears things like that happen on a regular basis.
I’ve maintained a close surveillance for the past few weeks while waiting for Amazat to make delivery. He met his original target date. I was surprised, but pleased. It means my plans can move forward unhindered. Kyle stays in hotels every night while his two companions disappear to somewhere I can’t follow. That concerns me, because it’s a variable I can’t prepare for.
Moving in for the attack should be straight forward enough. I have yet to see any extraordinary security measures. Kyle sleeps alone in a hotel room with no alarms, no guards, and no defenses other than locking the door and occasionally the window. He’s either very foolish or very confident. And he makes no effort to obscure his location. He checked in under his own name. If I made as many enemies as he did, I would take a few more precautions.
I’m still not sure why he surrounds himself with those two buffoons. Brent seems competent enough with research and scientific manners, but he’s a liability in a fight, and they get into so many of them. The other one, René, must have some ability that is essential in rare circumstances, because I have yet to see him make any contribution whatsoever. But I will find out soon.




Tuesday, May 27, 2014

20 - A Grand Hotel then a Nearly Deserted Moor

Chapter III - A Grand Hotel then a Nearly Deserted Moor

I sit in my hotel room and star out the window over the city. It’s beautiful at night with a cloak of darkness to cover up the crime, poverty, and ugliness that is an inseparable part of any large city. The lights shine like Christmas decorations, but I’m too preoccupied to enjoy any of it.
I decide the next two tests I have planned for Kyle will be inadequate. Ordinary hit men – even the best in the business – won’t suffice. I am forced to enlist the aid of someone who deals in much more … exotic fare. Someone I had hoped to never deal with again. But I see no other option.
Dr. Emil Amazat has been spearheading the research in genetics and genetic engineering since the late 60s. Some of his experiments make Dr. Frankenstein look like a family practitioner. But unlike other mad scientists (and I mean that in every sense of the word), he is still a highly regarded and well-respected member of the scientific community. He’s even dean of the science department at a university on the West Coast. He has successfully kept his public research, which he does for the university and publishes about in journals, separate from his private research, which he does for high paying clients. He is the paradigm example of ‘It’s only wrong if you get caught’. He’s never gotten caught, so he’s honored.