Sixteen
Fortunate Finds
While the others napped, Hack used the opportunity to do a bit of shopping. He linked his datapad to the suite’s computer and took it with him. Once he’d exited the building, he logged in and deleted all footage of himself leaving the tower.
Hack was in buyer’s heaven. In a city like this, there was literally nothing that wasn’t for sale. He bought himself a sweet drink and explored the perimeter streets around the tower. For all the reputed enchantment of Central City, the neighborhoods surrounding Lorr Tower were anything but glamorous. It was midday; still hours until electric lights and the dark of night would mask the garbage and unseemly scars that the daylight so cruelly exposed.
Hack had specific items he wanted to find, so he wasn’t always successful on
