Carter Slade's arrival didn't bring any changes to New York.
As the typical lonely old man, the old man didn't have high requirements for quality of life.
In the church in the cemetery on the outskirts of Houston, he hadn't even had a TV. The most modern thing he had was an old-fashioned radio.
This time, Luke had installed a smart satellite TV. It could be voice-operated and even had a radio mode so that there was only sound and no image.
As long as the old man wanted to, he could learn more about what was happening in the world.
The old man didn't comment on this arrangement, but if he didn't refuse, that meant that he approved. Luke very consciously understood this.
After the real estate agent whom Luke was posing as left, the old man didn't enter the church. Instead, he sat down on a big rock next to the church and looked at the ocean not far away.
This beach wasn't as desolate as the Texan wilderness, but it was just as vast.
