By Wednesday morning, we had Athena's tickets. Multiple trips, leaving the country, heading for Canada and Mexico, and several cruise lines. London sounded the alarm as soon as Athena got onto an airline site to book her plane tickets to fly out to join up with Bethany. Someone was watching for her next move. What was interesting was that they hadn't tracked down her particular presence online, but had all sorts of trigger codes downloaded into the airline's website. A quick check by Sherwood revealed that every major airline that serviced the northern half of Ohio was being watched. Athena couldn't even drive to Akron-Canton Airport or Toledo to catch her flight and avoid the notice of the nasties and her erstwhile sweetheart.
Poor Freddie. Every call he tried to place to Athena was cut off before the phone started to ring. It didn't matter if it was her dormitory phone, her cell phone, the Longfellow house landline. Gotta love having really alert, wicked-sense-of-humor AI's as allies.
Athena left town by car, with Hayward. He drove her to JFK, where she caught the first of an even dozen flights, hopscotching around the country. Meanwhile, London and Sherwood were having fun playing with the video cameras and surveillance systems in every hub airport in the country, convincing the watchers that Athena was about to board airplanes going in contradictory directions. If we had wanted to implement a major attack on the Rivals, that would have been the day, because they were distracted, trying to find out which Athena was the real one, so they could track her.
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