Chapter 3: News.
The Hunters' guild was not busy today, nor has it been for years. A tall FOmar in dark blue robes was there collecting his newly printed BEE message, a letter from Blitz, marked URGENT.
"As you are indeed an apprentice of Miyama, it has been agreed that … this is top secret stuff," he nodded to himself. He scanned the rest of the letter, focusing on the words Sophia and tomorrow, and patted his Pinkal Section-ID badge on his chest. "What a surprise. This is great news. You shouldn't always be so pessimistic, Break! Of course it was going to get the O.K."
He caught the Hunters'-guild woman's eye and quickly walked away, suddenly aware of his bad habit of talking to himself.
"Miyama…" he thought out loud, as soon as he was out of her earshot, "I wish they wouldn't mention that name. Working for the Government has been my biggest regret yet, but it probably isn't all Miyama fault... He was suddenly restruck by guilt as he remembered the recent OPSS incident, the mass massacre of Humanoids. He took a deep breath.
"Well. Tomorrow, I'll be switching to Sophia's sector--Research. I'm going to call her right now."