There were a number of researchers working either independently or for companies who were interested in their results. Not a military place like I’m working at, he thought. He wanted to contact some of these cutting edge researchers, but he dare not do it while he was still employed by his current company HPD. He suspected they had been surveilling his communications, both for security leaks and to vet him for his security clearance upgrades. It made sense that once they started spying on him that they wouldn’t stop. So, he decided to not leave any tracks for them to find until he had resigned. But he had a house and a car to pay off before that. He sighed, there on his couch in his empty house. Maybe I can sell the house and car, he thought. And take a big loss. He’d not had either of them long. The house would not have had time to go up in value, and the car would just keep going down; but he knew that about most cars. Unless it was a classic car it was just a money loser.
