Musical accompaniment: The Way I do by Bishop Briggs
The trick to being a good agent is not just to see, but to remember.
CAMERON
I blink once and by the time my eyes are open again, the screen in front of me has gone blank and taken Ted along with it.
I should also get up, Aurora is already outside the door.
Instead I palm the small device in my hand. The one even right now connected to a receiver under the table where Earl and Conti are holding their meeting. I am supposed to hand it over to Aurora the minute I am out of this room so she can decode it and have the message transmitted back to Ted at HQ.
But instead, for a full minute, I find myself sitting in the empty, silent room, staring at the blank screen; Unable to move, looking but not really seeing. Here, surrounded by the p
