I was wrong about a lot of things.

IO was nothing like Europa. Europa was probably built as a getaway

for all the fancy exec-types on IO. It was all skyscrapers and

fancy suits. I stuck out like a sore thumb. I found a nice

dive-bar down an alley on the first night and pretty much holed up

there for the three days. I wasn't much in the mood for

sight-seeing, as you can probably imagine.

I boarded the return ship in disguise, using a counterfeit identity

chip. Judy had programmed it for me in advance.

I didn't run into them at all when boarding, they must've checked

in early. Good girl, Judy. It didn't really matter if they saw me

- the only witness that counted would soon be gone and the ship's

log would only show Mr. Mitty, my alias - but, I really didn't

want to bump into Walsh. If all went to plan, I would never see

his waking face again.

The details from the night itself are still foggy. They come back

to me in bits and pieces. A cabin door sliding open easily, /too/

easily. My soft footsteps on his bedroom floor. A pillow with my

hand across it.

I don't want to talk about it much, but all you need to know is

that when it came down to it, I /could/ perform after all. The

next morning, a huge, lifeless corpse was stuffed into a space suit

by an equally huge and identical living body. It was sent out to

enjoy the Jupiter sunrise one last time, and the rest is history -

or insurance company history at least.

For the last day of the journey, there were rumours on the lower

decks that a big-shot had died on the ship. I tried to keep my

head down as best I could, but couldn't help listening in now and

then. "Killed through clone negligence" I heard someone say. The

story was sticking after all. I had to give it to you Judy, you

knew how to spin a web.

I just prayed that the insurance companies would buy it too. All

the way behind Jupiter there isn't much in the way of law

enforcement, so the insurance investigators were the only thing

standing between us and happiness now.

And stand in the way they did.