You have no case to make, Garth. You talk of my undoing, when in reality you and your followers are already undone. I would like to leave this place now. I don’t know what sort of building you have made here. And, certainly, I will admit that it is filled with a few neat magic tricks. But, if it is designed to intimidate me then it has not worked.”

Garth leans on his knees, squints and says, “What makes you think we are letting you leave?”

“I’m not a silly man. I always take precautions. I set up a GPS link between my phone and the project site. If anything happens there, the automated security system notifies me. Similarly, if I don’t check in with that system by transmitting a randomized security code once every hour, it will call the authoritie...

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