Then the English line resolved.
He fed it another page. This one was a personnel file from the Panama Canal Zone, 1964. The RPA Reader’s lens flickered. The claw reached out, not to the paper, but to Arthur. It paused an inch from his chest, then retreated. On the screen, a single line appeared: rpa reader
Then they installed the RPA Reader.
Arthur’s blood went cold. He checked the date on the requisition. June 8, 1968. He remembered, because his own father had been at Fort Sherman in June of 1968. His father, who had died of a rare, aggressive stomach cancer in 1985. His father, who had written home about the "strange-tasting breakfast." Then the English line resolved