51 Corruption (2/2)

Amandla looked at the page and examined it. At first she was confused to see that in the upper half of the page there was a picture of the face of a beautiful young blonde woman with blue eyes and an ingenuous expression, but when she looked below the picture she thought she had the beginning of an explanation.

Underneath the picture there was a compartmentalized table of informations about this person and the first part of the table was entitled 'identity'. When Amandla had read 'Katelyn Ava Sullyvan' in this part, she remembered that Lazar had called the man in front of him 'Mr. Sullyvan' and she understood why he said he was here as a father, 'He want to save his daughter.'

During a second, she was almost a little touched and at least respectful toward Andrew because he had the humility to seek Lazar's help to save his daughter although Lazar seemed to hate him, 'Putting their pride aside for their children when they have to, that's what good parents do.'

”We can't save everyone.” Buren vaguely answered Lazar.

”I'd like you to be more specific.” Lazar insisted before going to another page and putting the file in Amandla's hands.

Buren and Lazar brought Amandla back to reality very quickly, it wasn't all black and white, Andrew was maybe a good father but that wasn't preventing him from being a prick, 'What a son of a bitch.' She thought with disgust as she frantically turned all the pages until the end of the file.

The last 20 pages of the file were presented in the same way; a picture, the identity of the person in the picture, the field in which the person concerned is studying at the M.I.T and several other indications that could be useful to find him or her when going on the site.

Amandla recognized some of the names that were written in the file so she understood what it was all about, 'Great, they are basically asking us to save only the brats of powerful people.' If their operations of exfiltration were really consisting in saving the people with the most influential parents and letting the others die, then immediately it seemed much less noble and that made Amandla less inclined to wanting to participate.

But still, she was sticking with the reasoning that the final decision was laying in Lazar's hands.

Buren had took his time to talk, it was clear that he had rethought about what he was going to say so as not to say something condamnable in Lazar's and Amandla's eyes, ”Mr. Sullyvan is here as the representative of many powerful families wishing to reunite with their relatives. It pains me to say it, but they are the ones who dictate the rules, the country will need their support far too much in the coming period for us not to accede to this request...”

He wasn't showing it but internally Lazar was amused, 'I was naive to believe that this kind of corruption would no longer existed.' Andrew had Buren by the balls and Buren was doing his best to convince him that he had to do this operation when he himself didn't seem to think that he was capable of doing it. Laughable.

”...If you manage to bring back all the people in these pictures or in the eventuality that you don't bring back everyone, if you are able to give us proof of the death of those absent, then my army will execute your plan to take back the city, it's as simple as this.” Buren concluded.