It took little work for Mishima Hana to find a flight plan for a corporate jet bound from Tokyo to Seattle. Slipping onto the airplane was also simple. No, the difficulty would lay staying out of the way of the few passengers and crew. One might suppose that an invisible person would have no trouble at all in remaining undetected, but there were a number of things that could give away her presence. She didn’t want to give the slightest sign that she had left Japan, therefore, she had to remain alert and actively out of the way of everyone on board the aircraft….
The hours of the flight seemed very long, although in reality the amount of time for the journey was quite typical in speed and duration, but Hana did not succumb to the weariness. Arriving in Seattle, apparently undetected, she disembarked with ease.
Prior to departing Japan, Hana had converted a portion of the funds in her secret bank accounts into gold bullion. If her security wasn’t as good as she believed it to be, then those on her trail might correctly guess that she had gone abroad but would not be able to follow an electronic trail to her destination. All around the world, there were businesses that bought and sold precious metals. As long as one party did not outrageously try to cheat the other, there was very little need to make extensive records of the transactions.
It took some time, going to different businesses, but Hana soon had ten thousand dollars in cash money in her hands. This would likely be enough to start a modest self-perpetuating operation. A little bit of pwrivate detective work, as long as it wasn’t related to Unity or the local government, didn’t trouble her conscience at all. But for now, she’d cautiously find a place to live in peace and quiet, until the action started.
After a couple days of consideration, Hana rented an apartment near 12th Ave S. and S. Washington St. under the name Hannah Nakamai. The changed spelling of her name would indicate that she might come from a family already established inthe United States.
