She set the cabinet to a review of the Dawn City's passenger facilities,
and was informed that everything would remain at the disposal of waking
passengers throughout all dives. She glanced over bars, fashion shows,
dining and gaming rooms. The Cascade Plunge, from the looks of it, would
have been something for Mihul.... "Our Large Staff of Traveler's
Companions"--just what she needed. The Solido Auditorium "... and the
Inferno--our Sensations Unlimited Hall." A dulcet voice informed her
regretfully that Federation Law did not permit the transmission of full
SU effects to individual cabins. It did, however, permit a few sample
glimpses. Trigger took her glimpses, sniffed austerely, switched back to
the fashions.

There had been a neat little black suit on display there. While she
didn't intend to start roaming about the ship until it dived and the
majority of her fellow travelers were immersed in their rest cubicles,
she probably still would be somewhat conspicuous in her Automatic Sales
dress on a boat like the Dawn City. That little black suit hadn't looked
at all expensive--

"Twelve hundred forty-two Federation credits?" she repeated evenly a
minute later. "I see!"

Came to roughly eight hundred fifty Maccadon crowns, was what she saw.

"May we model it in your suite, madam?" the store manager inquired.

"No, thanks," Trigger told her. "Just looking them over a bit." She
switched off, frowned absently at a panel labeled "Your Selection of
Personalized Illusion Arrangements," shook her head, snapped the cabinet
shut and stood up. It looked like she had a choice between being
conspicuous and staying in her cabin and playing around with things like
the creation of illusion scenes.

And she was really a little old for that kind of entertainment.

She opened the door to the narrow passageway outside the cabin and
glanced tentatively along it. It was very quiet here. One of the reasons
this was the cheapest cabin they'd had available presumably was that it
lay outside the main passenger areas. To the right the corridor opened
on a larger hall which ran past a few hundred yards of storerooms before
it came to a stairway. At the head of the stairway, one came out
eventually on one of the passenger levels. To the left the corridor
ended at the door of what seemed to be the only other cabin in this
section.

Trigger looked back toward the other cabin.

"Oh," she said. "Well ... hello."

The other cabin door stood