Title: Dinner with the Executioners
"Come to the Christ Family Manor tonight, Vanguard, and let us see what your true price is," Madam Christ summoned.
The holographic projection dissolved into a cold shower of blue particles, leaving the air in the pavilion completely silent. Gerald stood perfectly motionless, the faint hum of his internal processors the only sound breaking the heavy quiet.
"You should not go there alone," Laura said, her hand tightening over the smooth surface of the terminal desk.
"I have no intention of entering an operational theater without the necessary tactical parameters," Gerald answered calmly.
"The Christ Manor is a fortress of old wealth and hidden defensive arrays," Laura warned, looking at him with deep concern.
"Their security architecture is fundamen
