Kai smiled a little, gesturing her to and through his bedroom door and out into the hallway.<br/>"Well, when PM started, there were only about 30 of them, and they operated more like a gang than anything else. You know, drive-bys, drugs, extortion, et cetera.<br/>Anyway, the previous boss, Celry, used Plum and I a few times back then. He would have us get rid of a rival gang's boss, then he would stroll in and offer the remaining members an ultimatum. Join or die.<br/>"This went on for a couple years, until he recruited Ghost and Thyme. It was their idea to bring Plum and I on permanently. It was also their idea to start running PM, which at that point was up to about 200 members, more like a business than a gang. Nothing really changed. We were still extorting people and selling drugs, only now we were making the drugs, and rarely had to extort anyone at gunpoint anymore.<br/>"Plum and I still did our thing, getting rivals out of the way only to have their lackeys recruited by Celry.<br/>Eventually, PM got big enough within Market that Cel and Ghost decides to pull everyone off the streets until we could house everyone in one place. That decision was the one that turned PM more into a family, I think."<br/>They reached an elevator on the opposite end of the hallway from the on they'd come in on, near Ghost's office. Kai typed in a code on the keypad inside and they began moving down. Turning from her for a moment, he sat in one of the chairs in the rather large elevator. "The greenhouse floor is quite a ways down. You might want to sit." He gestured to another chair.<br/>"Anyway, that was when we found this place. It was just an underground warehouse at first, I think there was wine stored here at one point, but it was a huge place, and we built inside it, bedrooms and bathrooms and laundry rooms, until it might as well have been a palace. PM just kept growing, though, and we were running out of room. So, we pooled money until we had enough to hire that witch that lives on top of Mount Versailles outside of town. It was her that dug out the rest of our little base here. Scared the hell outta me, too. I've never seen someone wield that much power, and she didn't even fuckin' blink. Anyway, we started filling the floors as we continued to grow. Eventually someone proposed that we become self-sustaining instead of everyone going up to the surface every few days to buy groceries. So we took the biggest floor, the one deepest underground, and essentially turned it into a farm. Don't ask me how. Magic was involved again, and I wasn't present for it.<br/>"So yeah, we have a floor that is a greenhouse on one side and a farm on the other. We talks about them separate lay because they're closed off from each other and you have to take a completely different elevator to get to the Farm Floor. It's like stepping into a whole different world, though, on either side. Both spaces are big enough to fit Town Hall in a few times over. Any questions?"<br/><br/>Silas followed the pair, seemingly lost in his own thoughts as he had once been quite often. Paetra walked next to him, or rather sort of bounced, and it made him smile. In truth, the whole situation made him smile. As rocky as this first encounter had been, it was nice to feel as though they had made some friends. More than that, it was nice to be out of the house for once, with his wife and daughter. They rarely went out except to take Paetra to school, due both to Kallista's unease and his unwillingness to put himself in public. If anyone who had been to one of his fights recognized him, it could cause huge problems.<br/>They entered the club and Raz's vampiress hopped the bar to mix drinks. "Now we wait, I suppose," he said. "Though I believe my wife would very much like a drink. What was it you drank back home, love? You used to say it was the only alcohol you really liked."<br/>He had noted the man outside before they came in, and as such, was quite on edge, though he hid it well. He had the sense that something was going to happen, and with Paetra nearby, he was already preparing himself to kill the unknown man should he try anything.<br/>Then again, this time was different than theirs. Perhaps the man was simply taking a stroll and happened to be behind them. But Silas didn't believe in coincedence.