I paused waiting for the question I had spent the most time on devising a plausible and defecting answer to: how did I know this? It did not come; instead, I got the question that I wanted.
“That was concise and interesting. Thank you, Screw Top. Now how about getting to the real problem. What does any of this have to do with Wellsprung Sotash and, therefore, us?” Lincoln was in a hurry and I was going to take every advantage of that I could. The further I got from anyone thinking to ask how I knew all this information the happier I would be.
“Everyone needs to know the context for the rest to make sense. There was a curious action by Sotash that snagged my attention when I was reviewing his surveillance reports. He had a in-person meeting with Aldar Regis, a lifeform with no connection
