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. If you want to
extend your visa, you can. At city hall. And they'll collect air fee to cover
your extended visa. Now forget it, before I decide to cheat you."
"Choom, you're hard to please." I dug out my passport- glanced at it to
make sure it was my "Richard Ames" passport- and handed it to him. "I've been
away several years. If that makes me look like a groundhog to you, that's
regrettable. But please note where I was born."
He looked it over, handed it back. "Okay, Loonie, you had me fooled. Three
of you, eh? For how long?"
"My plans aren't firm. What's the shortest period for the
permanent-resident scale?"
"One quarter. Oh, another five percent off if you buy five years at a
time... but with today's prime rate at seven point one, it's a sucker bet."
I paid for three adults for ninety days and asked what he knew about
housing. "Having been away so long I not only don't have cubic, I don't know the
market-and I don't relish dossing in Bottom Alley tonight."
"You'd wake up with your shoes gone, your throat cut, and rats walking over
your face. Mmm, a tough question, cobber. You see the funny red hats. Biggest
convention L-City has ever had; between it and Independence Day the town is
booked solid. But, if you're not too fussy-"
"We're not."
"You'll be able to get something better after the weekend, but in the
meantime there is an old place in level six, the Raffles, across from-"
"I know where it is
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