November,
2022
Chapter 49 Elder daughter,
Anat (1)
“Shalom
hasn’t been showing up lately. Is she doing well?”
The
retired general turned from the picture book and asked to his elder daughter
Anat. Shy-Rock was reading the picture book for his beloved granddaughter Root
on his lap. When he had been active, he was scared for his fearless face and frightened
behavior. Even nowadays the general was scared by government VIPs, military
officers in Israel. But now with his granddaughter, he was an ordinary good old
man who could be found anywhere in the world.
"Shalom is busy with hospital work. She seems to like looking over the children ward and arguing with male doctors about the new virus or whatever."
Anat
answered to father and turned around her chair. Then, she looked down at his
father's schedule on computer screen and devoted herself to the question of how
to take care of today's guests. Even after her father retired from air force general,
there were many guests. It was her duty to coordinate his appointments. Since
she was young, her father's guests visited one after another. Therefore, she
remembered not only their faces but also their detailed habits in her memories.
She was the perfect secretary for her father.
Shy-Rock
still kept a hidden power within the military. The prime minister visited him
from time to time to ask for his opinion. Besides that, there were shady people
who visited to have secret talks expecting his influence.
After
guests left, the general closed the door, shut his family out and called
someone overseas. Anat knew that monthly phone bill revealed international
dialing codes like Washington and London. He seemed to be communicating with
other countries, too. It was possible for her to clarify the country of the
other party by checking the area code. But it was enough for Anat to say that
his father got in touch with any top secrets of the country. She had no
intention of inquiring. Her father was the only one person in the world that
she could respect.
(cont’d)
Areha
Kazuya
(From
an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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