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With an hour to spare before the major briefing, Mitch rang Adam and Eva and, talking on speaker phone, went over the final Berlin plan and the issues raised in the meeting so he could be forewarned before the local briefing. After the call, he printed a dozen copies of the Berlin model and saved it to his laptop from his email to project it on the boardroom screen. He glanced at his watch—twenty minutes left. He had time to visit Henri.
Taking the stairs two at a time, Mitch headed for Henri’s lab area. Henri’s two young assistants were both at their benches.
“Yeah, love the hair,” Jared said as Mitch entered.
“Sinister,” Tom agreed.
Mitch grinned. “Thanks. Not planning on keeping it though.”
“I would,” Jared said.
“Yeah but you’d do anything to stand out,” Tom baited him. “Like
