5
Alice asked at the front office how to access the movies she needed. Then she returned to her room with a Hub-issued viewer and the code to bring up any film she wanted.
She kicked off her sneakers and propped up her pillow and settled comfortably onto her bed. The bedspread was scratchy, military, but the pillow was pleasantly soft.
Alice took a deep breath.
Then she clicked on the first movie.
It had been a long time since she had allowed herself to watch any of these.
A long time since she had wanted to.
They felt like home movies, even though they were films made in Hong Kong.
She knew the instant Ted gave her her assignment that this was where she had to start.
Martial arts fights balancing on the thin branches of bamboo trees.
Aerial moves supported by hidden wires. Wire-
