She walked to the sidewalk, then began to trot. I continued to drive slowly down the block then circled it to find she had turned in the direction of ... park several blocks away I had personally jogged in before and was familiar with. I turned in the other direction and took another route to the park and parked my stolen car near the entrance. I’d seen no other joggers or cars in the immediate area and remembered the old adage “seize the moment” and decided to take her if I was right and she did. “There are six bogies within two hundred yards of your location,” the tinny voice said. “Impossible to tell what kind of armament they have.”“We need extracted,” Tanya said. “Do you see a collection of automobiles a couple miles from here?”“Yeah,” said the tinny voice.“We’re going to try for that location,” Tanya told her handler. “What’s between us and our parking facility?”“If you head directly West, you can ignore the two bogies to the North and East,” she heard Bret tell her. “But there are. Abank account that no one living knew he had. It was a trick he'd learnedfrom watching his brother/sister do to hide her own secret money. Ofcourse, back then it had been easier for her to get a bank card in hernew name. Edith didn't have that luxury, but he had been able to add asecond card for his 'sister' Edith Madison. And it was that card that hewas now usingOf course, at the Immigration Center, she'd told them she was seeking tobecome a Kitten, after hearing that they didn't do as. Suddenly feeling nervous, Tom looked around. He gulped, a thoughtpassing through his head that perhaps the real Meredith had returned toher apartment during the few minutes that he had been in the bathroom.But if she had, it didn't seem very believable that the first thing thatshe would do would be cleaning up after him.Tom grimaced and quickly looked through the apartment again, relieved tofind that it was still empty of anyone save him and Carmen. And somehowhe didn't think that the cat would.