Uh-oh. I looked around. Why use an earpiece? Why not use speakers in the ceiling like before?As if it had heard me, the voice said "|| Thank you. You ...ill receive all instruction through your earpiece from now on. You must wear it at all times. ||" What?" I asked, out loud, "forever?" But the computer wasn't listening, or it was listening but not responding."|| I will tell you exactly what to do and what to say. You must complete all your tasks quickly and without question. Do you understand?. She laughed and then accelerated pulling ahead of me. I could see her move her right arm like I was to follow.She pulled over to the emergency lane and I pulled in behind her. By the time I had parked and gotten out of the car, she had the hood of her Jaguar up. I walked up to her and noticed she had on a short, tight, mini-skirt besides the white tube top now in its proper place."Something wrong?" I asked."No. I don't walk anyone to be suspicious of why we stopped," she replied."And why did we. We were leaving on Thursday night as the meeting was at 9 am on Friday. The company would book both our travel and stay and as Lakshmi had traveled multiple times already, I told her to decide on the flight and hotel. Within a few hours, the travel team confirmed the onward ticket and a service apartment for Thursday night. Friday evening tickets were expensive, so they called Lakshmi to confirm as it needed approvals. She told them to check for Saturday morning, and that was cheaper or within. Life, love, money, happiness. Dig deeper and it is impossible not to see that these things are just the rouge on the cheek of a dead whore. Somewhere deeper inside him he thinks this, but on the surface he thinks very little at all. He has slipped into his auto pilot mode and forgets completely about the check that he had told himself he was there to get. Money is not what he needs right now, although what he needs seems to elude what little of his mind is still functioning. He slowly walks.