Nine Views of Transco Tower, by Iak/Sohu

Raymund Eich

CV-2 Books ● Houston

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or any known events is purely coincidental.

NINE VIEWS OF TRANSCO TOWER, BY IAK/SOHU

© 2011 Raymund Eich

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1.  Transco Tower on a misty night

I stand in the moon-shadow of an apartment building.  The disintegrator pistol squirms in my pocket, in search of more thigh from which to draw body heat.  An unlikely place to meet my contact, but the voice in my head drove me here, and I know it did not lie.

When the first file opened, I knew the image that inserted itself into my senses before Zhaduzogol's recorded voice identified it.  I had experienced Iak/Sohu's images in my childhood, when I did not know the