Tak is having a bad dream. Mostly about dead coworkers.
Tak is woken up by bankroft's lawyer. She's here to take him on a tour of the cloning facility. They go on a tour and nothing really clicks for Tak. I guess this is part of the process that his company has with this sort of thing. When they get "re-sleeved" the system is all about absorbing information. This is one of the things that makes them useful on any planet In the galaxy. They are working whatever case they're given, but also absorbing all the cultural info to live in any human civilization. So it might be a while for this absorption process to kind of run its course and Tak can really focus on critical thinking.
Tak gives the name that Ortega gave Tak to the lawyer. The lawyer explains that it was a prostitute that Mr bankroft got pregnant and Mrs Bancroft nearly beat to death. But in the end everyone involved was paid off and the Bancrofts didn't face any consequences.
CH 8 pg 70
Tak goes to pay a visit to this lady's dad. The whole thing is very sad. He's poor and his wife and daughter are both basically dead. They aren't really dead cause they have digital selves in storage somewhere but he's never gonna have enough money to resleeve them. He has plenty of motive to kill Bancroft but he sure doesn't appear to have the means of opportunity.
Ch 9 pg 79
Tak goes to a cathouse and talks to one of the lady's of the night. He claims to be the mom of a girl 👧that worked there and he's trying to get her resleeved but that's complicated because of the way she was killed. She tells him to come back tomorrow at the sa me time and she's hopefully have some info but is very clear that she can't make any promises.
He leaves and is attacked by some drug dealers that were hanging out outside. It's raining ☔ and I guess he's got some sort of superpowers and fights off two of them and the third one runs away and he runs after him. He catches up to him but then it turns out the guy has some sort of gun and if it weren't for his powers Tak would be a smear on the pavement. Then a police transport shows up and tells gun guy to put down his gun. It's fun how they call what we think of as regular cars ground cars and flying cars transports. The drug dealer shoots at the transport and gets away.
The cop opens the window and it's our favorite cop Kristin Ortega.
Ch 10 pg 88
Ortega gives him a ride home. They don't trust each other so they kinda talk about nothing for a while. Back at his hotel the AI tells him he has a visitor. Its Miriam burtrum. She wants him to stop investigating her husband's death. They, as Amos would say, bang. She offers him a spot on her private sex island.
CH 11 98
Tak is feeling hung over from his night with Miriam. He decides to engage in some retail therapy and goes to Bertrum's armorer. He buys a couple hand guns and a knife. As he's walking home he thinks he has a tail. Then all of a sudden he is seeing images of women's naked body parts. Apparently this is a means of advertising that is outlawed in his planet and he finds the guy doing it and roughs him up a bit.
Ch 12 106
Tak goea back to meet with the Lady of the night. It goes badly. She's already dead before he gets there and armed thugs are there to secure him and the dead body and take them to a second location. There are med techs there to torture him.
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