Brevity is the width of soul.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Harmony of Lies

She was like Mozart, you see. She built a successful cover identity when she was six. By age twelve she had a dozen names. Could have been a field agent before she was sixteen, but instead she got killed in a gruesome accident.

That's all in the records. But now we have for the first time a female director in the Agency, and of course the names, looks and ages don't match, and I will never be able to prove anything, but... would you tell me, Madam, if you...?

No, I'm not joking. And no, you are not the first woman I ask.

.finis.

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