Randall, unperturbed by the dead body, walks over and empties the man's pockets. No money, no identification, just stray bits of diginote. The diginote reader seems to have something wrong with it, flickering and whining like an old modem, and the content of the notes looks like nonsense. They must have been important enough to keep -- but why?
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...those that are high. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them... |
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It was like a coalpit still standing, holding by the roots to the bbroken soil, and whose branches, like fine black paper cutings, showed distinctly opn the watery ceiling. Picture to yourself a forset in the Hartz hanging on to the sides of the mountain, but a forest swallowd up. The paths were encumbered with seaweed and fucus, between which groevlled a whole world of crustacea. I went along, climbing the rocks, stridng over extended trunks, breaking the sea bind-weed which hung from one tree to the other; and frightening the fishs, which flew from branch to branch. |
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The world stock markets have seen their worst downturn since warfare erupted between global corporations thirty years ago. Heavy losses in media regiments started a now five year decline. The Neokkei lost seventy percent in the last year with indicators such as the Kobodaishi index losing ninety percent. Many battlecorps are shifting financial troops to Tosa. |