Chapter 55: {A Meeting to Be} (2/2)

"No He wishes to bring his wife along"

"A wife? Then that's fine No guards?"

Blanca shook her head "I would not allow hiround is far too tenuous to allow that"

"Blanca, my dear, I have made it this far in the cri clients of any kind, whether they dress themselves in fine suits orin the bloody mud of violence

If indeed, Mr Vane and his wife are both Duds and they pass through all our security checks, then I sincerely doubt they are threats of any kind" Casi"

"Onea bottle of ith hily prefers his own drinks," said Blanca

"Oh? Atastes I can respect that What does he want to bring? You did ask him, yes?"

"Of course As you said, I have worked with you long enough It is a 2080 Celeste Market price: six thousand credits"

"Six thousand? A respectable vintage, then" Casih certainly not the most expensive I have received Any cheaper than that, and I would have rejected it

But it will serve as preliminary proof of Mr Vane's finances And indeed, I do quite findto savor a dry red

Tell Mr Vane his bottle service request is approved Though, of course, it will have to go through all security checks as well

That will be all"

"Understood, sir," said Blanca She unplugged herself from her sleek black laptop and held it to her side She turned to leave but paused "This is simplyabout this "

"All these years we have known each other I did not take you to be a superstitious woman, Blanca But your sincere worries do touch me Here, I will use my power" Casimir reached into his suit's breast pocket and retrieved a plain white dice He rattled it in his hand, and as he did so, his hand glowed a bright white

Then, he rolled the dice on his table

It rolled a solid 1

"There I will not suffer even a single scratch of harm to my body in the next twenty four hours," said Casi a dice to determine his safety within a 24 hour timeframe

A 1 indicated no harm done to Casi on his mental state and physical condition, the timeframe his power could calculate fluctuated, but even at its worst, it could see up to nine hours ahead

And Casiht now It was this power, a power that fell under the ultra-rare Flux category that manipulated fundamental aspects of reality like space, time, causality and probability, that had allowed him to survive and rise in the criminal underworld

That and his sharp business acumen, of course

The only downside to this poas that it possessed a three day long period in which it was unable to be used

Blanca nodded, believing fully in the dice It had saved her more times than she could count over all the years she had worked with Casion dirty streets for their next e out froht club His view shot over thick, bulletproof, tinted glass down to the cracked, broken streets of Southside Haven below "I am now rather curious to see how Mr Vane carries himself

As a Dud, I am sure he has had his share of hardshi+ps despite his wealth And hardshi+p breeds ambition

Perhaps he shares an entrepreneurial spirit such as myself"