get to the starport

p when it usually doe

to my flight i

the clock in

way it goes, isn't

watch that could probably

ht that will get me to

hips heading to the tiny system on the fringe of the pop

" Lex

ng as it gets me there b

of the 3:05. . . yep. It looks like the earliest you'll be

rtant business meeting that must be face to face. This deal falls through if I don't shake

id you should have planned for traffic, chartered a direct flig

would toss a few dozen extra into the sky to map out a direct road from where someone was to where they wanted to be

e won't even get to the next designated

is a p

there's nothing we can do now, so just r

get me to that flight on time. . . I w

or, his hand slowly working toward a

itude are we t

all used the same chips. The rise in popularity of the miniature corporate and privately-owned casinos coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the credit system. Direct-linked bank accounts and universal "credits" had replaced cash entirely, making all transactions quick, easy, and traceable. The chips had a set credit

lue chips. Ten thou

this right, Mr. Patel. I'm going to n

o negotiate, " he said with a

it was. Inflation and such meant that a decent cup of coffee would run you four or five hundred credits. That said, three h

ator in time to board the

o the traffic, and back to the mirror. Finally, he

press and its parent company Milton Livery Limited of an

e to flash and reveal a rather crude and pixelated set of controls

l asked, craning his

with a nonsense license plate and t

was supposed to be only for display cars, but certain less-than-scrupulous mechanics would install it for anyone looking to change their veh