"Thank you. Oh, I almost forgot. Depending on the people, place and type of negotiation a small gift is usually required upon achieving a positive result. As I was a bit busy I narrowed it down to a choice of two. Please take your pick.
This . . ." after pulling a rather large bottle from his suit pocket " . . . is a little something I make myself. As the records will show it has been the end of some of my former employers who were of a weaker constitution. The container, not the contents, are the gift in this case and, incidently, the inspiration for the drink's name. Black Death. Salvaged from an ancient sea vessel, long before we set sail for Sirius, that was sunk under the false assumption that one of the crew suffered from the ailment.
This . . ." after placing the bottle on the table a crystal rose was then produced from the depths of the black suit " . . . was a little something I made as well. A foray into materials that were responsive to the slightest changes, this early model didn't do much but . . . it's one of a kind. Watch."
The rose flower, thorns and stem were all a rich gloss black. Then they weren't. pulsing, flashing and gently morphing from every colour to every other colour. Oh, and the whole rose was balanced on the edge of the tip of the Reaver's outstretched finger blissfully unaware of the physics it was ignoring. Machine gently placed it too on the table.
"Not much I know." he said with a sigh of regret "Time, alas, is always against such things. But, please, choose and enjoy"
With that last word he was gone. Only to be back a second later to say
"Oh, and those forms you mentioned? Already done, filed and out the way. I'll check in to finish the in person stuff. Damn. Would've been so much more impressive to disappear without a trace just there. Well anyway . . . do pick either, the other'll find its own way back."
With that he lit up two cigarettes, holding them both between the same two fingers and smoking them both as if he only held just one as he walked quite visibly and very normally out of the room.
