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“YOU WANT
me to what?”
“Help us
find what appears to be an ancient weapon,” she said.
“Ancient
weapon?”
“I know it
sounds incredible,” the academic said.
“It does,
even in my alternative, parallel universe.”
“Yet,
astonishingly, this is what our authorities have been forced to consider.”
“You’re
going to have to unpack that a bit,” he said.
The man in
the big blue suit, who bulked up the small meeting table, and who sat flanked
by young, careful-faced men, spoke up.
“Very few
of us believe in remote killing, of the kind you’ve been describing, anyway,
but we all believe in remote listening. We have intelligence that something
ancient, called ‘the mother of revenge’
is being levelled against our country from the land of the Nile.”
