Humanity's Shadow

[Fairchild]

I think I'm starting to understand how you must be feeling.

"Mr Reeves," she smirked. "I'm not an incapable scientist damsel-in-distress. I don't need your protection, I can care for myself. I will be leaving Liberty soon, regardless. There are places I have to go, people I have to see. We will remain in touch through the Neural Net though, I hope."

She took out a small memory diamond from one of her pockets and slotted it into the PAD on her wrist. I'll let you decide how much you want to reveal. She noticed that the Professor started copying some files onto the diamond.

"You also seem to be assuming an awful lot here. Cryer doesn't have a bad hand in this, this entire thing is as clandestine as they could make it. We have no evidence they're planning a 'mass mind control' project, this is nothing but assumptions. The issue is, as long as this project remains closed behind Cryer's doors, it remains a possibility. Shattering their public image and attempting to completely ruin them would also be unwise. Cryer is the only provider of many unique drugs, among them Stabiline. Hundreds of thousands of people are dependent on Stabiline now, including a lot of the prisoners on Huntsville and Sugarland. If people stop trusting Cryer about it, it would be a disaster."

Done.

She removed the memory diamond from the PAD and placed it on the table. "If you want to teach Cryer a lesson, just simply releasing this," she pointed to the diamond, "to the people will do enough. They will have sunk billions of credits into the research just to find out their trade secret is out."