Traveler''s escape Done 1.6

Looking back, it was his hair cutter. She forgot, maybe never followed the rule, never talk about HNMNBie and mentioned Adrian. For what ever reason her shop in Bellvue was selected for surveillance.  Adrian came in to get his mane trimmed, paid with cash, but for whatever reason, was followed home using satellite tracking.

It is hard to imagine why any judge would have signed a search warrant, but the US was a long way into decline at this point.

It was the classic zero dark thirty, get them while they are asleep and brain foggy "drive up and surprise". However, the street Adrian lived on was somewhat remote. The house on the corner was HNMNBie, traffic sensors went of 0438, 5 vehicles = 1 anomaly. Police band proximity alerted next. Adrian's EAai fired up the RV, two Blockade Busters and a couple Navigators, and launched two UAVs, (Adrian and XXX usually slept in his RV, made it easier to keep the house ready for drop ins).

Adrian, heard the RV initializing, all screens in the RV were lit up with tactical data as it was becoming available. A couple crows were already buzzing the shiny black government vehicles, when would they ever learn. As a blue circle, Adrian never kept tactical data in his house in the clear and everything was encrypted with HNMNBie and Blue Circle ciphers and keying systems. No point trying to get data at rest out of the house, cipher analysis would take years.

His RV platooned behind a BB and they drove past the government cars as they were setting up. Evacuation plan A involved a water escape. A HNMNBie owned house that was vacant and up for sale had a wide dock available from the driveway. Four party barges woke up, and platooned together. Adrian's RV pulled off and onto the boats. Two powerful motorboats joined them. The convoy continued South without them.

Meanwhile the on scene commander was acting way above his paygrade, calling in air support, back up, and so forth at 0445, overtime, emergency time, this was going to be an expensive operation. They executed their search warrant at Adrian's house, no one, nothing, no prints or DNA without a second level search. A chopper located what was most likely the platoon, though it had one RV, not too. By then, there was a human driver in each one, they had maps and picnic baskets, (fishing gear was already loaded on the BB), headed to XXX to go fishing.

Well yes officer, we did leave early in the morning, we should have left earlier, but Harold here, couldn't get his act together. Fish wait for no man. Search? We will wait for a warrant. What happened to the RV? What RV? Look we are not saying you didn't see another RV, but officer, this is Washington State, there are lots of RVs, we have ours.

= = Panel of the RV, expresso stand

= = attorney pulls up, member of the fishing club

= = reporter with bonafide press credentials pulls up

Look partner. I think we are making a big mistake. There is nothing to catch,

They might be drug dealers.

This isn't 2017, the war on opiates is over. With genetically modified yeast you can overdose the population for a ten km diameter with a bag of sugar and $200 DIY set from the Internet.

They might be terrorists.

Three white guys in their 60s, no criminal records.

Don't you think it is suspicious that an attorney and a member of the press just happened to pull up.

Not suspicious, suicide if we make trouble. The chief is trying to reach you. This operation has already cost the department a month of unplanned expense. We might get some of it back from the government agency that tipped us, but we both know the government is broke too.



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