Corporate Lobby

[Vogel]

Hayes blinked.

"Well," he started off slowly, "Let's just say I talked to some friends in high places. Places where you made your bid for that so-called 'construction' project'."

He leaned back a bit, losing a bit of his carefree appearance. That portion of the story was fairly flimsy; his "source" had attained it from another "source" which may or may not have been accurate, or legal for that matter. But Hayes was never one for subtlety, hence why he'd walked up to OCULUS' doorstep.

Of course, there were only a few roads to go down when the first thing out of your target's mouth was "What else do you know about it?"

The truth was that he knew very little.

The truth was also that the less Mr. Heliox knew he knew, the better off he was.

"The fact of the matter," he continued, coolly, "is that I know about it. No going back from that, so we have to go on from here."

Vague, foreboding.

He'd been in the business long enough to know how interrogations worked.