Surprisingly,
I did not have to drag Frank to the shower. He was up at 5:30 in the morning and
pacing the floor by 6:30. After
cleaning off the breakfast dishes I asked my master if he wanted me to come or
if he was going to depend on his ButtonPort?
“No ButtonPort, I want to bring you
just in case we get a full-fledged story.
I might as well go with the best equipment I’ve got.”
I
went to my closet and put on a fresh suit.
Interesting thing about robotic suits for hominid robots are they were
never very impressive compared to human suits. The pants had no zipper and were held by
elastic. There never was a shirt –
just a casual suit coat with no handkerchief pocket. Nor were there any inside pockets and
the coat pockets were more to hold anything that the master wanted you to
take. Many who used hominid robots
let the robots keep their wallets since we were programmed to stop anyone from
taking it. When I first started
working for Mr. Huntington he gave me a Press Pin to wear on the lapel. He said it made him look more
important.
At
7:01 I told him I had been contacted that the car was waiting at the front of
the hotel. He put down his tablet
and we proceeded via the lift down to the main entrance. Waiting for us was a new driverless
Royce that displayed a stylish digital sign saying “Huntington Transport to
Maidstone Labs.”
After
Frank was settled in his seat and the Royce quietly sped off he turned to me and
asked me who Lutts’s top people were at Maidstone.
“What
you would call the inner circle is composed of two people. No one really gains access to Lutts
without going through them, except for one exception. The two top people are Robin Mendez and
Stephen Sun Wu.
“How
do I address the Wu guy? Mr.
Wu?”
“Yes,
that would be the customary.”
“Okay,
go on.”
“Mendez
is in charge of research and Wu is in charge of bringing lab discoveries to the
market. With most everything made
in China, Wu knows who can make Lutts’s inventions. They seem to be really close
to Lutts and probably advise him on much more than is publically
acknowledged. They both have a hand
in managing and coordinating projects between all of Lutts’s
companies.”
“So
who is the one exception you mentioned?”
A
woman named Dr. Amy Larson. She
went to Oxford with Lutts and became his lab manager of sorts. Anything he needed she either could find
or make. She is very bright, but
not in Lutts’s league. However, she
is probably smarter than anyone else Lutts has ever met, so she has the run of
the place. There are no reports of
their being a pair, but their relationship is very close in the intellectual
sense. Anything else,
sir?”
“No,
just enjoy the ride, Jack.”
That
was my cue to be quiet and for the rest of the ride Frank just stared out of the
window.
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