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Old 02-19-2009, 03:33 AM
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Willis pulled his heavy wollen coat tighter around him .As he labouriously made his way from his office to the town hall for todays rounds of discussions .The wounds still ached .Sometimes he would have to slow down to a snail pace due to the skin stretching uncomfortably .It felt like tearing a notepad size bandaid from a wound not fully healed every time he did it .But now his mind raced over the new opportunity that had presented itself to him last night :

During his dinner ,one of his aides had asked for a meeting and he grudgingly allowed it .He wasnt disappointed.The aide came with news from the hospital .One of the patienst there , a severly ill man by the name of Andropopolous had told everyone of his "valuable information" in the faint hope that he would be deemed a valuable asset ,and that more resources and the precious drugs would be spent on saving his life .He had worked the docks of the Port of Oakland for over 30 years ,including 5 under PacGov rule and knew them well. After the events of the last part of the 2nd American Civil War -the summer 2019- he had run away from his post .But he took with him knowledge of the unloaded stacks of containers and bulk cargo silos and warehouses that were there.many of which he and his co workers had left fully loaded with equipment and supplies .He was specifically thinking of a shipment of Japanese wind power generators ordered by PacGov just before the crash .He was sure they were arrived - he had seen the papers himself .But for someone to find them in the thousands of containers you would have to know what to look for .And by now there were probably marauders sifting through that stuff .

Willis was sure of one thing -this was an unexpected and promising opportunity .But with the council in endless debates on housing and sanitation and heated shouting matches over the possible lack of food towards next spring , getting the authorization to draw the resources and manpower would be a pain in the *ss.

But there were other ways- if he could only find a ruthless and tough group of guys that were accustomed to danger and didnt mind bending the rules -til they broke ...Also they would have to be expendable not to put him an akward situation with the rest of the council if anything went wrong ...hmmm..who to contract with for this one...
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