City Without End (2010)
“When businesses opened, she purchased a briefcase, then paid a visit to her bank and withdrew $300,000 in cash, a transaction that drew the attention of the bank manager. The manager made polite inquiries about her need for such an amount in cash. Scams and swindles abounded, she must be aware.
Yes, she was aware.
She faced him calmly. “We may be making another withdrawal in a few days. Let us know if this is inconvenient.” It would not be, the manager assured her.
She ate a fast-food breakfast..., wolfing down something that a half an hour later, she couldn’t remember having eaten.
Highway 26 to Beaverton, meshed to savant control that kept each car a few feet behind the one in front, and then, unmeshed, onto side streets. Her destination: a run-down neighborhood with intentions to do better. Planter strips by the curbs held well-meant flowerbeds on the turn; a few houses had seen recent paint.
Kell Tobias’s had not. The former Minerva savant tender had let the yard go to weeds, but she liked that he bothered to mow them.MoreLess
Yes, she was aware.
She faced him calmly. “We may be making another withdrawal in a few days. Let us know if this is inconvenient.” It would not be, the manager assured her.
She ate a fast-food breakfast..., wolfing down something that a half an hour later, she couldn’t remember having eaten.
Highway 26 to Beaverton, meshed to savant control that kept each car a few feet behind the one in front, and then, unmeshed, onto side streets. Her destination: a run-down neighborhood with intentions to do better. Planter strips by the curbs held well-meant flowerbeds on the turn; a few houses had seen recent paint.
Kell Tobias’s had not. The former Minerva savant tender had let the yard go to weeds, but she liked that he bothered to mow them.MoreLess
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