Nice to
meet you. Why's the name block on your badge light blue?"
"I'm registered as a guest author. Artists get a different color -- light
green, I think. Staff types get red or yellow."
She glanced at his badge again, then asked, "Are you staying on this floor?
Was that your room you came out of?"
"Yup."
"I don't think anyone else on this floor is registered as a guest author.
Why you?"
"Maybe it's because I'm really an author."
Uh, huh, thought Mandi. Or maybe he was a reporter who'd gotten wind of
something? He'd come out of one of the rooms in the agency block, but...
Her expression made him add, "I'm with John's crew. They pulled me out of
retirement for this op when they found out I'd be here anyway."
If anything, her puzzlement grew. "Retirement? From what? You don't look old
enough to be retired."
Shrugging slightly, Cade said, "I am, though. Retired, that is. So I must be
old enough, I guess. How about you? Which team are you with?"
"No team. John put me in as a standalone."
"Woo! A superspook, huh? Foreign or domestic? There seem to be some of each
here today.
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