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Meanwhile: Downtown

The sun was just setting over the horizon and the Zootopia downtown area was painted in a warm orange light.

It would have been a beautiful sight to witness but Christopher, a young raccoon, was currently far too busy with his work and therefore missed the nature spectacle. Up until he entered his bosses office after knocking on the door twice.

"Christopher, are you already finished?" Asked senator Burchell from behind his large conference table. He was not turned towards the door, rather than that he was facing the large window front that extended over the entirety of the office's back wall.

The golden light painted the room in a surreal color scheme as it fell onto the expensive wooden table and the comfortable leather chairs which adorned it on either side.

His boss would have not been visible in his big chair as he leaned back, if it weren't for the glass of whiskey that he was carefully swirling around in his right paw with a circular motion, as his arm rested on the side of the chair.

"Yes Sir!" Said Christopher with all the confidence that he could muster given the circumstances.

The numbers were not bad, but they were certainly far from their desired goal. Not to mention the whole incident from two days ago which had made operations within the city limits that much harder. And he hoped that the Senator would ask for the status of their operation instead of the poll numbers as Otterton was steadily gaining followers.

"And what is our status?" Asked the Senator in usual calm collected demeanor.

Christopher took his chance to step further into the room before closing the door behind him and he started to speak as he had practiced before paw.

"The widow has been eliminated, that means that there is no mammal left that can link the FPM attack to us."

Burchell took a sip from his glass and waved his other paw around in a circular motion which signaled his assistant to go on.

"The involvement of the military as well as the new curfew have halted some of our operations, as you already know Sir. But I spoke with Mister Iruantai and he assured me that his people are working hard to get everything back in order."

The Senator made a clicking noise with his tongue and said coldly.

"I do not believe that, we could have seen this problem coming. If we had been better informed about the military's marching orders that is. I think that he has been deliberately stalling us."

He took another sip before adding.

"Have Svenson take care of him and replace him with a suitable candidate as soon as possible."

Christopher nodded instinctively and made a small note on his notepad.

"We also received reports that the military is using this chance to move its troops into the counties. They are mainly focusing on Deerbroke for some reason. This means that the troops in Zootopia proper are more thinned out than expected."

He made a full stop, but when he got no reply he added.

"I thought you might be interested in this, Sir."

The drawn out silence that followed made the much younger raccoon uncomfortable and understandably so.

In this business there was no time for messing around, one had to be ruthless in politics. And his boss, the Senator, was the one mammal that strove to stand at the very top of it all.

As such, he had been known to get rid of any mammals that proved to be problematic along the way.

He had not always been that way though. Or so Christopher had heard. And him having spoken without being asked was a big red flag in the mind of the ambitious raccoon.

The silence was broken by the ice in glass, as the formation of ice cubes hit the wall of the glass itself.

The senator took another sip.

"It is indeed interesting."

He finally turned his big leather chair around and placed the glass onto the table before he propped his elbows onto the table and proceeded to rest his head on his paws.

"It gives us information about our adversary that we did not have before."

This made Christopher tilt his head in confusion and he asked without thinking.

"How so Sir? Isn't your adversary agent Hunter?"

His boss just mustered him calmly and so he panicked and added.

"He has nothing to do with the military anymore since he became a criminal. Right?"

Burchell raised his head and leaned back into his chair as he replied with a smile.

"He does, but that is not what I mean. Our esteemed President is doing his best to fend of any problems that may endanger this country. Be they inside the country our outside of the country."

The Senator placed his right arm on the chair's armrest and started looking at his own paw while he went on.

"Thanks to my efforts Liska is one of these problems. And the fact that the military is moving on this scale means that Liska did something big. The fact that the news are not involved means that this is a matter of national security and this means that our plan is working."

Christopher felt happy about that at the very least. He had no real idea how this meant that the plan was working, but it meant that all his work was finally paying off. And thus he got curious.

"What makes you say that Sir?"

The Senator turned his attention back towards his assistant and smiled happily.

"Liska operates stealthily and with great precision. He has been planning his revenge on me for years now and the fact that his actions are being noticed by the acting government means that he is getting desperate."

The smile turned into a smirk.

"And with him changing up his plans to match our...well...it just means that we are in the lead. And that is thanks to your suggestion, I am proud of you my boy."

After saying this the Senator grabbed his glass once more and held it up into the air. It was filled with the rest of the expensive liquid which looked like liquid gold as it was hit by light of the setting sun.

"To our success."

Christopher felt a warm fuzzy feeling in his stomach.

"Hear hear!"

It felt good to be appreciated.

Authors Note:
So I made this little chapter while I am anxiously waiting for my last day at home to end before I set out to leave for a totally new horizon.
And thus you may or may not enjoy it and I wish you all farewell until I get the next chance to write something again.
I made this in just a few hours so I apologize if it is not as long or as proofread as my chapters usually are.