Mike Williams series: A courtroom drama in space
Mike Williams had a very forgettable face. People always seemed to have trouble remembering him. Not his name but him as a person. ‘Excuse me, have we met?’ they would say and not ‘I know I have seen you somewhere before!’. At social events, people would introduce themselves even though they had already met.
In high school and college, he was that kid everybody forgot. He simply
got lost in the crowd because he wasn’t outstanding in any way.
In
school, Mike had never failed a test, but he never got a full score. He
didn’t seem to struggle as some of his classmates did, and he never had
to repeat a year. But he was never top of his class either. Mike
Williams seemed to be a very average student.
The other kids
didn’t talk to him very often, not because they didn’t want to, but
because they forgot. Years later when flipping through their yearbook,
people would look at their class photo and think ‘who was that kid?’ and
‘I never got to know that guy’.
You could say, that Mike was used to
not being recognized. Therefore, he was quite puzzled when a humanoid
lion with glasses and a clipboard said: ‘Welcome aboard, Mike Williams.’
