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Chapter 7
Beta 2 Alpha Base - Minnesota
"So what you're saying is that you will pay a bounty of $20,000 for every confirmed capture?"
"The agreed price was $10,000 for a juvenile, but, yes we are willing to go up to $20,000 for a full adult. And for a White Wolven - let's just say that our price would be - upwardly negotiable."
"I see. And you would have no problem with - collateral causalities?"
"Mr Cain, my men have the resources and manpower to ensure that the demise of Wolf Lake is unlikely to be questioned. If however, you doubt our ability?"
"No, no, no - I believe you. A whole town - hhmm well, I've never seen it done before. Although there was that small place in Eastern Romania last century."
A plume of smoke blew out of the darkness.
"Quite. And now if our business is concluded?"
"Yeah - sure. I'll update you when I have something to report."
"Of course. However please be assured that if you fail we shall not even bother to deny our involvement."
"Yeah - I get it. Top Secret Government stuff I bet. "
"Indeed. Good day, Mr Cain."
Cain watched as the other strolled away, surrounded by a cloud of smoke from his ever present Morley's.
Official government agency? What a load of crap. He knew a black ops guy when he saw him. And as for plausible deniability? He didn't give a shit about that. All he cared was that he had just been given carte blanche to harvest the infamous secret mother lode of the Werewolf world. The one place his compatriots had been searching for since the freaks fled the Old Country in the 18th Century.
This was going to make his retirement fund. He checked the pad with the numbers. 800 confirmed werewolves in the town, factoring in 300 for acceptable casualties, use them for pelts, god knows he had a waiting list over a thousand long for those alone. Then 200 for the military testing, leaving 300 available to private collectors and for fur breeding. Maybe that's what he would do - set up a facility and breed a few. And a white Wolf - how rare was that. His eyes gleamed with avarice. He could get infinite amounts of money for that pelt, or in breeding potential, or for the testing - he was going to have to think long and hard over who he handed that one over to.
With the whistle of a man happy with his work and his career he settled down to start his requisition for the destruction and enslavement of the Wolven of Wolf Lake.
From the shadows a lone plume of smoke arose as the cigarette smoking man watched his employee disdainfully.
"Do you think he'll be effective?"
He barely turned his head to the other voice from the shadows.
"I doubt it. However he may bring the few necessary specimens in for testing."
"Then why employ him in the first place?"
"Consider it - an experiment." He blew another plume of smoke. " If the denizens of Wolf Lake cannot defend themselves against Mr Cain, then they would be no use for the more specialised involvement we may require them for."
"I see. And if they can?"
"Well then - they will have proved their viability. And then we will have to utilise our more able operatives in the next mission. Just think of this little experiment as an opening salvo."
"Before what?"
He lifted his head and blew a perfect smoke ring into the warehouse shadows.
"Before the real bombardment starts."
Chapter 7
Beta 2 Alpha Base - Minnesota
"So what you're saying is that you will pay a bounty of $20,000 for every confirmed capture?"
"The agreed price was $10,000 for a juvenile, but, yes we are willing to go up to $20,000 for a full adult. And for a White Wolven - let's just say that our price would be - upwardly negotiable."
"I see. And you would have no problem with - collateral causalities?"
"Mr Cain, my men have the resources and manpower to ensure that the demise of Wolf Lake is unlikely to be questioned. If however, you doubt our ability?"
"No, no, no - I believe you. A whole town - hhmm well, I've never seen it done before. Although there was that small place in Eastern Romania last century."
A plume of smoke blew out of the darkness.
"Quite. And now if our business is concluded?"
"Yeah - sure. I'll update you when I have something to report."
"Of course. However please be assured that if you fail we shall not even bother to deny our involvement."
"Yeah - I get it. Top Secret Government stuff I bet. "
"Indeed. Good day, Mr Cain."
Cain watched as the other strolled away, surrounded by a cloud of smoke from his ever present Morley's.
Official government agency? What a load of crap. He knew a black ops guy when he saw him. And as for plausible deniability? He didn't give a shit about that. All he cared was that he had just been given carte blanche to harvest the infamous secret mother lode of the Werewolf world. The one place his compatriots had been searching for since the freaks fled the Old Country in the 18th Century.
This was going to make his retirement fund. He checked the pad with the numbers. 800 confirmed werewolves in the town, factoring in 300 for acceptable casualties, use them for pelts, god knows he had a waiting list over a thousand long for those alone. Then 200 for the military testing, leaving 300 available to private collectors and for fur breeding. Maybe that's what he would do - set up a facility and breed a few. And a white Wolf - how rare was that. His eyes gleamed with avarice. He could get infinite amounts of money for that pelt, or in breeding potential, or for the testing - he was going to have to think long and hard over who he handed that one over to.
With the whistle of a man happy with his work and his career he settled down to start his requisition for the destruction and enslavement of the Wolven of Wolf Lake.
From the shadows a lone plume of smoke arose as the cigarette smoking man watched his employee disdainfully.
"Do you think he'll be effective?"
He barely turned his head to the other voice from the shadows.
"I doubt it. However he may bring the few necessary specimens in for testing."
"Then why employ him in the first place?"
"Consider it - an experiment." He blew another plume of smoke. " If the denizens of Wolf Lake cannot defend themselves against Mr Cain, then they would be no use for the more specialised involvement we may require them for."
"I see. And if they can?"
"Well then - they will have proved their viability. And then we will have to utilise our more able operatives in the next mission. Just think of this little experiment as an opening salvo."
"Before what?"
He lifted his head and blew a perfect smoke ring into the warehouse shadows.
"Before the real bombardment starts."