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I was wrong about a lot of things.
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IO was nothing like Europa. Europa was probably built as a getaway
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for all the fancy exec-types on IO. It was all skyscrapers and
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fancy suits. I stuck out like a sore thumb. I found a nice
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dive-bar down an alley on the first night and pretty much holed up
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there for the three days. I wasn't much in the mood for
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sight-seeing, as you can probably imagine.
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I boarded the return ship in disguise, using a counterfeit identity
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chip. Judy had programmed it for me in advance.
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I didn't run into them at all when boarding, they must've checked
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in early. Good girl, Judy. It didn't really matter if they saw me
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- the only witness that counted would soon be gone and the ship's
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log would only show Mr. Mitty, my alias - but, I really didn't
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want to bump into Walsh. If all went to plan, I would never see
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his waking face again.
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The details from the night itself are still foggy. They come back
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to me in bits and pieces. A cabin door sliding open easily, /too/
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easily. My soft footsteps on his bedroom floor. A pillow with my
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hand across it.
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I don't want to talk about it much, but all you need to know is
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that when it came down to it, I /could/ perform after all. The
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next morning, a huge, lifeless corpse was stuffed into a space suit
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by an equally huge and identical living body. It was sent out to
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enjoy the Jupiter sunrise one last time, and the rest is history -
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or insurance company history at least.
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For the last day of the journey, there were rumours on the lower
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decks that a big-shot had died on the ship. I tried to keep my
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head down as best I could, but couldn't help listening in now and
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then. "Killed through clone negligence" I heard someone say. The
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story was sticking after all. I had to give it to you Judy, you
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knew how to spin a web.
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I just prayed that the insurance companies would buy it too. All
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the way behind Jupiter there isn't much in the way of law
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enforcement, so the insurance investigators were the only thing
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standing between us and happiness now.
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And stand in the way they did.
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0Cilix - 13-Return /Cilix/13_return.txt
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0Cilix - 12-Blast-Off /Cilix/12_blast_off.txt
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0gaudium - Martian Storm /gaudium/martianStorm.txt
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0Excelsior - Systems Admin Report - Epsilon Zeta 20 Epsilon /Excelsior/010.txt
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