The guard shook his head. Another guard whispered to him, and he looked at Mary’s hostile expression and the t-shirt and turned cold. Mary’s suitcase got the closest scrutiny of all.
As they walked away, Justin whispered to Peter, “That was a nice touch, having Mary distract the guards while I came through with the—”
Peter whispered back urgently. “With the water. With the water.”
“Right. The water.”
And it was indeed water, though Justin had enhanced it considerably in his basement. Evian would be surprised to know that they now bottled CHP, otherwise known as concentrated hydrogen peroxide.
Paul caught up with them. “When does the conference start?” Their justification for coming to the BrainTrust was to attend a conference on Making the Oceans Bloom: Life and CO2 Sequestration in t
