Quote:Yes, it would be a good skill for her to learn, I've apparently picked up a variation in which I can either scream 'security', aware sleeping person, or varying levels of 'don't notice me'.
"Hm." She risked a glance up at him. She still couldn't quite
get used to the change in his appearance. Even though he hadn't
changed the color of his hair or the mustache -- which after
nearly two weeks probably wasn't fake any more -- he had shed the
vaguely disreputable air he'd possessed when they'd met in
Eriko's a few nights earlier. Instead, even though he was
dressed casually for a GENOM employee, he radiated an aura that
said, "I'm a respectable young executive." Knowing he couldn't
be using his powers to do it, Lisa was forced to conclude it
really was just a matter of how he carried and presented himself.
That kind of skill would be *very* useful to an investigative
reporter, and she made a mental note to see where and how she
might be able to learn it.
Quote:Non, non, non. It's the motorpool that has the running gun-battle, the janitors run a quiet campain of 'rogue' floor buffers and vacuum cleaners.
"I think your contact's right, Lisa," Doug said, shaking her out
of her distraction. "It's likely GENOM. I should probably say
another GENOM faction -- the whole corp is rife with little
powerplays and rivalries between divisions and departments." He
chuckled. "Hell. I half-expect to hear any day now that a
running gun-battle has broken out between the fifteenth- and
sixteenth-floor janitorial staffs over who gets the really *good*
soap."
Lisa laughed in spite of herself. "You know it'd be easy to
clean up afterwards," she offered with a grin.
--Rod.H