Phil sat on the couch, taking a short break from the security upgrades he’d been working on. He looked at the TV, and a report about something strange happening in Antarctica caught his attention. He sat forward.
“Hmm. Strange,” He said. Danny entered the lounge room, and stood leaning against the doorway.
“Hey Danny,” Phil said.
“Phil,” Danny replied.
“What’s up?”
“What have you been up to, Phil?” Danny asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Weird deliveries at all hours for the past few days. You and Grissom hard at work on… something. You going to fill the rest of us in?”
“Just… you know, fixing up the old place. Some security upgrades. You know… stuff.”
“Right. Stuff.” Danny said. He walked in and sat in an armchair diagonally across from Phil, and leaned foward.
“You’ve been working pretty closely with Priest, haven’t you?” Danny asked.
A knowing look came over Phil’s face. “Ah. So that’s what this is about.”
“…partly.”
“He helps out some. Why? Is that a problem?”
“I like you, Phil. I trust you. The same can’t be said of him. Just… watch your back.”
“Noted,” Phil answered.
“I have to go get ready. I’ll see you later.”
A few minutes later, Danny was standing in the meeting room. He’d gathered together Mick, Kristogar Velo, and Tobias Christopher, and they sat around the table.
“Okay, Mick and Kris… We’ll be catching the six o’clock flight from the La Perdita airstrip to the mainland this evening. There we’ll catch a connecting flight to Berlin. Have your bags packed and be ready at five. It’s now…” Danny looked up at the clock on the wall. “One fifteen. Be ready in three hours and forty five minutes. Tobias, I want you to leave for Berlin a half hour after our plane leaves the runway. Take a mobile phone. We’ll call you when we arrive, and meet at the hotel Kit’s organised.”
Danny handed out hotel flyers to each man at the table.
“That’s where we’re staying. Memorise the address. It’s our rendezvous point in case of emergency. We all clear?”
The three men all nodded.
“Good. Go pack.”
As they got up to leave, Danny tapped Mick on the shoulder.
