My bed sits longways against one wall to give me more room; a desk with my laptop on it rests beneath the single window, which is covered with the plastic blinds that came with the place. No curtains, and the room has the same bland white paint it had when I moved in. Opposite the bed is a set of shelves crammed with books and DVDs. Since I don’t sleep, I have to occupy myself somehow when I “rest”. Meditation is the preferred method for officers to “refresh and renew”, as the Shadow Watch’s somnocologists put it. But since I suck at meditation, it’s books, movies, and the Internet for me. I tossed the folder onto my bed, then put my water on the nightstand, along with my fully charged trancer. Once loaded with M-energy, trancers can function on Earth day or night, but they can only be recharged at one of the M-stations in the Rookery – which I had done before leaving. I took off my suit jacket, shirt, and pants, slipped them onto hangers, then hung them up on the back of my closet door.
