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THE BIG TIME

I decided to go to Petra DeKant's office in person.

What happened next exists in my memory as a strange, slow-motion dance. Like the time I fell off my bike and hit my head on the Peterson's mailbox and had to get 11 stitches.






First, the guard wouldn't let me go back to Petra's floor. "But I work here!" I told him. He looked up my name in the phone list but it wasn't there (duh). Then he said he would call Petra's Ass-istant but I told him that wouldn't do any good because he was a Sick and Twisted Fashion-Victim Paranoid Creephead (not exactly in those words.) It looked hopeless, so I just ran into an open elevator and prayed.

As I charged down the hall, Jules was shouting something like "Vait a minute, you vill not go in there!" and the security guy was shouting something like "Stop or I'll shoot!" and when I got to Petra's office she was sitting at her desk. I went in and closed the door behind me.