The journey was spent in silence for the most part, until they reaction the outskirts of the town. Maya started walking faster and seemed to be trying to shake off Angelo, who tried without much success to keep up. He finally gave up trying to match her stride and fell back. He called out to her when he realised she was pressing on and stopped hee panting.
"Hey, do yoh have somewhere you need yo be in hurry?" he asked, gasping for air.
"I think its best if we return home separately, you don't want people jumping into conclusions about us do you?" she said, then se turned away and walked off.
He stood there for a moment trying to catch his breath, then he walked back to his rooms. He sent straight to bed and was sound asleep moments later.
Morning found him up and ready for more work. He went to the office in the board house and made a call to headquarters in Phoenix. When his mom came on the line she was breathing fire, she went on for several minutes about the halted production and the losses the company was suffering.
Angelo calmly waited for her to finish and then told her about about yhe situation with the Blue belly sickness. He clearly stated ehy he took the decisions he did and what he planned to do; again attracting another outburst from his mother.
without giving him a chance to say anything more, she hung up the phone. He wasn't discouraged from his path and was adamant that he would find a solution. His next call was to the CDC. He made a report and brought them up to speed on the available information regarding the illness.
After making calls, Angel stepped out of the house and headed to the mine. He met Russell at the gate and proceeded to the administration block with him. once inside the secure office of the manager, Russell asked about the phone call to headquarters. That meant he had been contacted about it. Angelo waved it off and told Russell he had made up his mind. He didn't feel like another lesson.
Russell, to his credit, didn't make a fuss and only nodded and took out some files from hos briefcase and put them on Angelo's desk.
"What is it?"
"Take a look for yourself, someone is keeping an eye on you, i think you should avoid wandering around on your own. It might be serious." Russell said.
He opened the file nd found pictures of himself around town, starting with the one where Maya was holding him that first time when he had drank himself senseless. there were even those from yhe previous day when he came back to town with Maya.
He found it amusing that somone was following him around. But he wasn't worried in the least. He put the file aside and looked up at Russel who hd remained standing?
"I need more information on this illness, can you get someone from the sickbay to come here with everything they have on the illness" he said.
"Right away Mr Black" said Russell hurrying out of the office.
There was a knock a few minutes later, and upon being called in, came in a short skinny man with a hangover mustache.
He introduced himself as Doctor Make Durmont. He had with him a large batch of documents under his right arm.
"Tell me all that you know to date" Angelo said.
"Where do i begin, well most of what we have sre mere observations, we haven't established the source of the illness, or how it spreads but we have observed that it is spreading fast and it is likely going to overrun the town within weeks if its not contained. The rest of tge observations are here in these documents you can take a lok yourself ".
He dismissed Dr Durmont shortly and started reading the documents.