the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat went down the stairs - he did not trust elevators or other closed spaces and avoided them as much as possible - and out into the street.
he checked his phone.
the car being sent for him was eleven blocks and approximately two minutes away.
meanwhile, the man in the blue suit , who had left the house he had been in and waited in the street for five minutes and then gone back inside the house and called line 4, reemerged from that house and began walking down the street toward the center of the city.
the city was a large one, and inhabited by many people.
although it had been constructed relatively recently, it was now listed by the central authority as the twenty-ninth largest city in the world.
it had a bustling and burgeoning economy, centered on sports betting.
the man in the blue suit did not himself have much interest in either sports or gambling.
the car that had passed the house that the man in the blue suit had occupied, after he had gone back inside after his first five minute emergence, was parked by the curb three blocks away.
it appeared empty of human occupants.
sunlight glinted on its rear window.
the man in the blue suit passed it.
the man in the blue suit began humming a simple tune - a quaint habit he had picked up in a previous life.
the car being sent to pick up the man in the brown coat and yellow straw hat, going in the same direction as the man in the blue suit, passed the man in the blue suit as he walked along humming his simple tune.
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