Eyes and Ears

[The Operative]

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One of the biggest fallacies in the dystopian Sirius system was the assumption bars would be a good place to have a talk about shady business. Definitely not, with Junkers and other information handlers sitting at the next table, surveilance equipment both from officials and inofficials running 24/7 to ensure no secret would remain what it was for too long. So the Operative invited Knight Captain Elena Voigt to find him at the main observation deck of Bethlehem. A public place, not restricted to anyone. However, why would anyone who managed to leave a planet visit the observation deck of a space station?

Only a few random people were around. A mother with her daughter, two technicians during their break, two low-ranked scientists, a couple sitting on a bench and kissing each other. A few other people in the distance. And the Operative. It might have looked a bit weird to see a person fully wrapped in black flightsuit of a leather-ish material, still wearing the flight helmet. Dark-toned visor. It really was that kind of a person that put much effort into not giving away any personal detail but drawing attention - if that wasn't a weirdly common thing in Sirius.

Standing at the big windows, the Operative seemed to stare outside, being silent all the time. It was only a matter of the latter until the Knight Captain would arrive - hopefully not alone.

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