6
WHAT THE. . . ?
Melati stared at the closed door, feeling like something important had just slipped through her fingers. Should she have alerted Socrates that the database was left open? Was he now in trouble with the enforcers because of her?
In the back of her mind, she heard Uncle’s voice: Do not get involved. They do not care about you. They do not understand us and we don’t understand them.
Yet one thing she understood better than Uncle or most barang-barang: Socrates was Rina’s boss, and Rina needed her job to avoid a fate like all other girls. Love or hate the tier 1 constructs, they provided solid work that was fair, gave people real opportunities for education, didn’t line the pockets of some criminal Chinese-run racket and took its rules and regulations from proper ISF law
