NARAYANNE:The meeting

The morning had offered some challenges along with some small but welcome victories for John Weed. Raymond Jones' face was well known so Ray had John memorize a list of responses if cornered by the press. The same factors that made this hotel a good choice for Jacob were things near and dear to the hearts of corespondents and news crews. John actually had more then one chance to put Ray's spin lessons to good use. He also acquired the other two rooms they wanted. He was told a group from a fashion magazine doing some local photo shoots was pulling out early and their rooms would be available in the late afternoon. All this and he rounded up breakfast for the crew. While they we eating breakfast in the "War Room" Agent Stewart brought by United States Marshal Henry Paul who not only administered oaths put issued them badges and ID. The meeting was held at public school that was being used a temporary headquarters. They had to pass through three levels of security to get into the meeting. The meeting was an update and debriefing for all taskforce members. Special Assistant to the President Henry Gordon was the Domino Taskforce leader. Gordon had just been given the Special Assistant title. When taskforce was first started Gordon was in an obscure position in the Justice Department. The Taskforce had tripled in size in the last thirty hours. The main reason for the meeting was to get everybody together. After introductions Gordon presented a summery of events to date. After that Doctor Martha Brown of the CDC presented information on the small inorganic artifacts that Hunter had told them to look for. They had already verified the objects in 23 domino victims. Tunneling electron microscope analysis of the objets taken from the Philadelphia Victim showed a complex and most likely artificial structure. Doctor Brown stated that the objects appeared to be some sort of advanced nanotechnology. After formal presentations were made a question and answer session started. Jones and Gould handled most of the questions to the group from Philadelphia. Hunter was a very hot topic. After the meeting Doctor Brown had a physical planed for Jones, Weed, O'Donald, and Register. When the four had agreed to the physical they had not anticipated the spinal tap or the Gynecologist that Brown had arranged for. All and all they came out fine except were Weed passed out at the sight of the spinal needle. The other three teased him about unmercifully. Register and Jones were tight lipped about their gynecological exam. Jacob did not go to the meeting he manned the phone watch. Hunter called he was worried about the Domino going to ground. He was at a loss to explain the lack of a body by the last transfer. Hunter wondered if perhaps even the killer was shocked at the sheer violence of the events in Savannah. Not only were the goings on here alien to anything in Hunters culture but also the Domino would probably feel upstaged. Hunter talked longer to Jacob then he ever had before. Hunter talked about the way that his people considered a mind as self-aware software. Their concept of law, good and evil, and right and wrong was based on a set of that such software should be guaranteed. Those rights were freedom from external edit, preservation of uniqueness, and the right to run. Jacob had asked about what equipment and capabilities the Domino had. Hunter said the Domino was probably better equipped than him, but if he could get within ten meters of the Domino he could shut all his hardware down. After the Physical Weed came up with a hunch he had to check out. He spent the next hour finding someone who could get him civil engineering documents of the area under the last transfer. In the course of his search he also found rumors of a missing sewer worker. He had Cash follow up on the missing sewer worker. And went back with Knight to check out the uptown site. Weed had developed an intense interest in a manhole cover. Weed explained that it was a sewer main and over sixty feet deep. Weed and the Mounty asked about in the shops around the area. They found out things were slow yesterday the only item of interest was a bunch of photographers and some models shooting pictures. Cash and Gena were not finding much. The alleged missing worker had been on the surface when he wondered off with a young woman. His colleges believed he must have got lucky and lost track of time. He had not clocked out last night or back in this morning. Cash found that the workers were very cooperative and a little two friendly. Cash found it disconcerting to question a witness that was trying to pick her up. It seemed to be a dead end, However the woman's description sounded like victim S17 (Savannah 17). They called the missing man's home phone but he did not answer. They were about to head out to his address when a body turned up at the sewage treatment plant. It was the missing man.