A young girl came into the room shortly afterwards and without even giving a glance to me as I stood naked, just took the vial away."Let's save some t...me now by taking your photographs while you are naked, and then I can make some notes."She took me through to a back room where a camera on a tripod stood in a small photographic studio. A small dark woman came through and joined us."The usual portfolio shots please Maria," the woman told her as she left us.Maria took my pictures from all angles.. The resulting chaos was all captured on film for posterity's sake, and video of my detail carrying me out to a waiting mobile operating theater caused a near panic in the stock market, of all places.It was almost an hour before my press people got word to the national press that a thick notebook in my suit stopped the bullet, and that other than a very ugly bruise, I was fine. No one really believed it, so the President's press secretary called and asked me to make a live statement in time for. "That's not Ayer's rock, that's Broken Hill," I said."Oh. I guess I wasn't paying much attention." It's a fine movie. I think it was the first Australian movie to get worldwide notice. Mum liked the novel." Oh. There's a contraction." I looked at my watch."How long does this go on?" Braxton Hicks? Forever. Some women begin in the second trimester. With luck, it'll keep on being well-spaced for another week or so. We'll call the obstetrician when they get to ten minutes apart. Unless something. I have a job to...”“Oh I’m sure you do but I don’t intend to be a victim of yours,” Beatrix spit back at the figure.Shaking its head a moment, then figure nodded to Beatrix, “Alright, what do you want to know? Afterward, perhaps we can discuss me regaining my scythe, okay?”Beatrix thought a moment. She’d never seen an agent nor heard of one with a scythe. “Alright, first question, who in the fuck are you? Second, how in the hell were you able to follow me? Third, who do you work for?”“Obviously.