[SPEAKER_00] okay I'm just reading another part from trust okay she wakes alone Martin's
[SPEAKER_00] Martin's gone the side of the bed already cold she lies still for a
[SPEAKER_00] moment gathering herself and in these first moments of consciousness she aware
[SPEAKER_00] she's aware that during the night even as
[SPEAKER_00] she slept the resolve that first came to martin's apartment martin's apartment has solidified
[SPEAKER_00] the fear has diminished determination grown
[SPEAKER_00] good he's left the notes couldn't sleep gone walking call call me she knows martin max's death
[SPEAKER_00] badly shaken him but he won't let it overwhelm him he'll be out there now working it through
[SPEAKER_00] reverting to his journalistic identity they want to know what happened and who's responsible
[SPEAKER_00] and when he's learned the truth he'll publish it tell the world it's time he did something
[SPEAKER_00] similar found out what tarquin molloy was really doing at mollison's find out
[SPEAKER_00] what threats the past might pose.
[SPEAKER_00] She showers and prepares herself,
[SPEAKER_00] applying makeup as if it were subtle war paints.
[SPEAKER_00] She wants to look sharp.
[SPEAKER_00] She wants the world to know she means business.
[SPEAKER_00] Before leaving the hotel room,
[SPEAKER_00] she facetimes Verne and speaks with Leon.
[SPEAKER_00] The boy is elated to see her.
[SPEAKER_00] purpling with excitement but soon enough he grows distracted she can hear his
[SPEAKER_00] cousins yelping and laughing in the background it brings a relief he's happy
[SPEAKER_00] and he is safe glad to see her but not too desperate to have her back he's
[SPEAKER_00] resilient cheerful secure life is still adventure she loves him all the more
[SPEAKER_00] feeling the connection
[SPEAKER_00] Arcing out through her phone, North supports Silver.
[SPEAKER_00] She tells him again she loves him, before cutting the connection and ringing Martin.
[SPEAKER_00] When he answers, she hears the bustle of the city coming through the ether and into the silence of the hotel room.
[SPEAKER_00] Is that what money buys?
[SPEAKER_00] Sorry.
[SPEAKER_00] islands in that big city in solution he tells her he's on the tram on the way to meet bethany glass
[SPEAKER_00] that there is something he needs to find out that he'll be back soon he says to stay in a hotel stay
[SPEAKER_00] safe sure she says she hangs up gathers her bag and leaves bethany's she remembers her young and
[SPEAKER_00] five breaths oh she remembers her
[SPEAKER_00] young and vibrant young and vibrant she's surprised to feel a spare of jealousy of suspicion
[SPEAKER_00] it's a long time since she's felt anything like it it reminds her of the days at tarquin melloy and
[SPEAKER_00] zelda for shaw like a taste of poison creeping back into her thoughts best trying to reassert its
[SPEAKER_00] own
[SPEAKER_00] hold over her. Fuck that. She holds tight to her resolve. She needs to act. She needs
[SPEAKER_00] to push back. Lest the past reassert itself.
[SPEAKER_00] The macaws and the expanses.
[SPEAKER_00] These items are not just an original art,
[SPEAKER_00] but see, the concept is also almost servile.
[SPEAKER_00] This might be old enough to be your father.
[SPEAKER_00] As he guides her to the bathroom with a penult and a plush carpet with new computers and a printer.
[SPEAKER_00] You wouldn't be disturbed ma'am.
[SPEAKER_00] He promises her with a quick bow.
[SPEAKER_00] he has a mistake in her for some sort of celebrity
[SPEAKER_00] celebrity maybe she's paying too much for their room
[SPEAKER_00] the computer is a new the internet the internet oh the
[SPEAKER_00] the internet lightning fast it's surprisingly easy
[SPEAKER_00] to find her old boss from Mollison's. Bam! Rizali! Google! Is there nothing that
[SPEAKER_00] can't be found online? It takes her a little longer to track down a phone
[SPEAKER_00] number. She breathes, looks at the number on the screen, hesitating.
[SPEAKER_00] Feeling unsure whether she really wants to do this, resolved wavering momentarily, she
[SPEAKER_00] closed her eyes, her mind winding back to those first days at Mollison's, to Friday
[SPEAKER_00] night drinks at a bar down the water, sidequests shining, her bouffant and her mood expansive,
[SPEAKER_00] her eyes dancing blue, she was happy, so happy, but also
[SPEAKER_00] careful not drinking too much keeping her wits about her trying to try hard to find in
[SPEAKER_00] i'm trying hard to fit in she found herself in a group of four tarkin and ref and another trader
[SPEAKER_00] called phil tarquin's doing his best to put her at ease she was finding it difficult to make small
[SPEAKER_00] talk ref was a head trader and one of
[SPEAKER_00] the shift supervisors overseeing the bank round the clock till you're making a serious man
[SPEAKER_00] the conversation shifted from markets and margins to the state of the economy
[SPEAKER_00] here and abroad it seemed as if phil was attempting to impress raf
[SPEAKER_00] with its knowledge of the european bond markets she listened trying to learn
[SPEAKER_00] to fad
[SPEAKER_00] thumb the jar guns and guess the acronym at guess at the acronyms the acronyms the
[SPEAKER_00] acronyms acronyms doing her best not to embarrass herself or talking she could
[SPEAKER_00] see Pam's hovering in the background a busybody vacuuming gossip for Monday
[SPEAKER_00] morning debrief then a woman sauntered over inserted herself
[SPEAKER_00] into the group Zelda foreshadowed laughing at the man's jokes smiling
[SPEAKER_00] Rodley and flowers
[SPEAKER_00] Floor
[SPEAKER_00] Floor
[SPEAKER_00] Floor
[SPEAKER_00] Party
[SPEAKER_00] Flirting
[SPEAKER_00] Flirt
[SPEAKER_00] Flirting ting ting ting ting ting
[SPEAKER_00] Flirting ting ting
[SPEAKER_00] With me
[SPEAKER_00] I wish people would flirt like that with me.
[SPEAKER_00] Very determined.
[SPEAKER_00] Then a woman sounded over-inserting herself into the group, Zelda foreshod laughing at
[SPEAKER_00] the men's jokes, smiling broadly and flirting effortlessly, very determined, with all the
[SPEAKER_00] sincerity of an Instagram influencer.
[SPEAKER_00] Mandy felt grateful for the diversion.
[SPEAKER_00] She was in trouble at Tarquin's gaze, shifting to Zelda.
[SPEAKER_00] Perhaps Zelda, a woman of a similar age, might even be an ally.
[SPEAKER_00] We'll be right back.
[SPEAKER_00] This is how I like, I read the Quran in a certain way, like this in Arabic, like they're
[SPEAKER_00] like bismillahirrahmanirrahim, alhamdulillah.
[SPEAKER_00] Laramin, arachmene rachim, meliki yomitin, yekana poro, yekana sahin, etin asrata musikin,
[SPEAKER_00] asrata latin, anamta lehim, lehrim tubile, ule talin.