The door is open, but there’s no one there. I check the holoscreen next to the door. It’s definitely Kerri’s office, so I go in and sit down on a chair beside her desk to wait. There’s a holoscreen on the desk just like mine downstairs, with the datascroll paused on it and a word highlighted in yellow. I glance at it, wondering what sort of statistics someone higher up like Kerri deals with. Something more interesting than food supply stats, I should think. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – NOT FOR NEWS SCREEN BROADCAST. TO BE VIEWED BY AUTHORIZED PERSONS ONLY. Case Ref: RQ675 Name of prisoner: Maxwell Alexander Fisher Age: 16 Citizenship-card ID number: 996437865MAF Charge #1: Evading arrest Charge #2: Suspected involvement in escape of category A prisoner Charge #3: Helping a felon evade arrest Senttence: Life, Innis Ifrinn Prison, former Orkney Isles My heart skips a beat, then starts thudding at twice its normal speed as I realize what I’m looking at. These must be crime stats, straight from ACID.
