by Hugo Huesca
“Just ask Charli Dervaux. She’s having the time of her life.”
David nodded with resignation. Odin’s CEO had landed mostly on her feet after the leaks. True, her company had been cannibalized by her competition and divided into thousands of little pieces (all of those with funny Viking-like names: Valhalla, Nordic, Mjölnir) but she was still rich, she was still well connected, and her prison was somehow more luxurious than a five-star hotel.
You can’t win it all. The Accountability Act had failed this time. Wall Street was already cooking up the next iteration. From what Orville had told David about it, K-Sec and other activists all around the country were already gearing up for the next battle. It was a war they were always ready to fight.
John Derry stopped the car. David raised an eyebrow. The prison was still farther away. He looked out of the window and had to laugh out loud. They had stopped in front of a fast-food burger joint.
It was a new concept of restaurant. The first in the country to be run entirely by drones.
“Figured you may want to have a last freedom-meal. Prison food sucks.”
“As long as no one feeds it to me through a tube,” David said.
John slapped David’s back. “No tubes this time, Terrance.”
The agent stepped out of the car and walked around it. David fumbled with the handcuffs to release his seatbelt. He caught sight of something plastic under the seat.
“Huh,” he extended his arms under the leather seat and fumbled around until he found it. He took it out. “That’s funny…”
“What’s that?” asked John.
“They’re my pills,” David said. He showed the little PKD bottle to the agent. It was filled a third of the way with the familiar pills. “I don’t know how they ended up in your car, though.”
John shrugged. “Beats the hell out of me.” He forgot about the bottle quickly, though. “Let’s go, Terrance, this time I’m paying.”
The agent walked towards the burger joint. David got out of the car, careful not to put too much weight on his recently healed leg. He stared at the bottle.
Then, he shrugged to himself, put the pills in his pocket and went inside the restaurant.
Afterword
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