from The Reason

Reality is a dame called Rusty Canz and a night in The Hillbert Hotel.

One of the best places to hide is a servo-bed hotel. Famous for their rectangular horizontal door, in space usually just a wide low door in a bulkhead. Scan some moneyed up ID, or lami to keep it low-low, at the display for the door to open revealing a bed in a low-g padded-up tiny room-let. Push the edge of the bed and a toilet appears. Very cozy. If you are quick two very friendly people can fit but one must duck the cameras at the entry. Pile in lie down door cycles closed then your servo-bed joins the chain it never left of servo-beds that line up in perfect order in a hundred meter loop almost always in motion around the service equipment packed core. A sleeper detects no motion even though the compartment spins the loop or stops with the great chain of servo-beds anytime some one checks in or out. They actually move very fast which in space is compensated by the fractional gravity. You can stay until you run out of credits or step out, the doors are notoriously fast at shutting some one out then throwing up the 'no vacancy' sign, their left belongings gone in the maid-o-matic. Still many people live in versions of them everywhere there is enough room to fit a narrow flat chain of boxes. Check in and out whenever most where ever. No room for baggage, no view, though the walls play vid. Sleep and go or stay inside till you run out of food, where you can't get it delivered. To stay in bed having food delivered is some peoples idea of heaven. My youthful record from many years ago is seven tera days. Funky, the room doesn't clean itself till you pass out the threshold. That's how you get a clean room though you might get the 'no vacancy' instead from the hotels suspicious AI. Space hates them. If I can wrestle him past the door and pen him in before it closes he'll spend the whole time growling and snapping at the overhead corners. Must be able to hear the machinery going. He also marks each room he's been in. This dog like behavior makes it hard for me to sleep in a servo-bed hotel so I don't. I also have a fear of power failure. No power and you are trapped in the stack, I don't care that they say it can't happen anymore with our futuristic hotel tech and all. I mean that might be a way to find him! Just cut the power and voice print the screaming till we got him.