July 20
And if they have walked out on him? Phillip thought. What concern is it of ours? Granted, he added, it would be distastefully opportunistic to re-present the Twilight Wings opportunity to her. But then again, the Foundation needs Rob as much as she needs safety, he thought. This of course disregards finding her– probably trivially easy, given the resources Chloe had been known to draw upon.
Still, the question nagged at him. The police would obviously not ask for the Foundation to actively seek out Rob MacKenzie– much to the contrary, Sabretti would probably ask the Foundation to sit on its hands and wait patiently. Alex MacKenzie asking the Foundation for favors was about as likely as the Pirates winning the division next year, he thought. And obviously, Mirielle or Rob were either unwilling or unable to ask for his help. By his own code, he should stand by and wait to see how things develop.
But then again, he thought, “unwilling” is completely different from “unable”. An objective view of everything that had passed told him that Mirielle did not disagree with her husband to a significant degree. The cameras were clear; she had made only token resistance to Alex’s arguments. They were also merely cameras. They could not delve into the motivation behind her complicity. Phillip had seen the desperation in her eyes, had known that Alex was willing to lie to strangers. Or, he thought, maybe I’m just overlaying that onto what I see, to give myself the chance to be a hero.
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