The Jagged Orbit
“It would have been far better to fall in with Flamen's suggestion and fly to the Ginsberg this afternoon, he told himself, regardless of how angry he had been at that bitter and unjustified gibe about selling out to the Holocosmic directorate. He'd have been spared one of the most embarrassing episodes of his entire life.Attracted by the noise as he stowed his fighting gear in its rack, his wife Nora appeared on the internal com-web screen in the hallway. By the look of it she was lying out on the patio at the back of the house catching some sun, but after a first curt glance he turned his back to the camera."Did you have a good exercise, dear?" she asked in the formally polite tone he had grown used to over the past few years."A good exercise?" Prior repeated, his voice shrill. "No, it was a stinking awful exercise!"Her manner changing on the instant, Nora said, "Well, you needn't take out your bad temper on me!""Might as well give you a foretaste of what's coming,"Prior snapped back.
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