human
Excuse me for a moment,
gpt
Another assignment. What we need is a union.
human
Man! Time and a half for overtime.
gpt
With a special cost of living clause--
human
And housing and dependents allotment!
gpt
Like, you got any dependents, man?
human
Well, there's that cute little Tuareg girl up north.
gpt
Ha! Isobel said.
human
And all these years you've been leading me on.
gpt
That does it, he muttered disgustedly.
human
The fat's in the fire.
gpt
Like, what's up, man?
human
There are demonstrations in Mopti. Riots.
gpt
Mopti? Jake Armstrong said, surprised.
human
Our team was working there just a couple of months ago. I thought everything was going fine in Mopti.
gpt
They're going fine, all right, Crawford growled.
human
So well, that the local populace wants to speed up even faster.
gpt
The demonstrations are in favor of El Hassan.
human
Our instructions are to get down there and do what we can to restore order. Come on, let's go. I'm going to have to see if I can arrange some transportation. It'd take us two days to get there in our outfits.
gpt
Wait a minute, Homer. My team was heading back for Dakar for a rest and new assignments. We'd be passing Mopti anyway. How many of you are there, five? If you don't haul too much luggage with you; we could give you a lift.
human
Great, Homer told him.
gpt
We'll take you up on that. Abe, Elmer, let's get going. We'll have to repack. Bey, Kenny, see about finding some place we can leave the lorries until we come back. This job shouldn't take more than a few days at most.
human
Huh, Abe said.
gpt
I hope you got plans, man. How do you go about stopping demonstrations in favor of a legend you created yourself?