The Fontana Summit

[Reeves]

Another handshake, another rehearsed smile, and another face to study. At this rate his arm was going to detach from its socket under protest of unfair working conditions.

"Mister Drake. Welcome to what was once Hesperia." An apparent triumph to tout, but a veiled magnitude of tension deliberately betrayed a sense that Morreti perceived the conquest of Hesperia as something of a slight, at least with regards to the Inner Circle. Perhaps Drake was clued in on the history, but he might elect to simply not care given the average Hacker MO.

The other Hacker delegation was likely to be far more flamboyant and potentially annoying. Which would serve nicely insofar as undermining the cardboard cutout personality of the Professorship's gunmen was concerned.