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Ling’s Mission Journal: Part I
We land in Tokyo. Security is tight. No matter. We make it through. My disguise is good. And Zak and Giles are nobodies.
I meet them outside the terminal. It’s raining. We take a taxi downtown. It’s twenty-two-hundred hours. But this is Tokyo. It never gets dark.
Neon signs flash bright as the sun. Pigs in different colours waddle across skyscrapers. They explode into coins, hearts and butterflies. The taxi takes the expressway into the city. I check my watch. Fifteen hours ahead of Denver Mountain Time. The other team should be there by now.
I look across at Giles and Zak.
Giles is smart and earnest. Zak has unresolved s****l issues, but Giles said he’s a genius with tech. Not like Roni, but a good standard.
Zak and Giles tap at speed on their phon
