At first, Zach was clearly fascinated by the technology used to hide the door in the wall, but then his expression changed into surprise as the walls of neon-lit boxes and their contents behind the door were revealed. It seemed so unlikely to be a coincidence, but then again, it had to be… In any case, these were just boxes, nothing more, yet the similarity of the arrangement gave him chills of excitement.<br/><br/>“Hmm,” Zach began, but before he had time to get any closer to the doorway, his focus was suddenly taken by a silent alert on his optical display. The blue light it reflected on the grey skin around his deep eye sockets slightly brightened, and he took a couple of steps aside. “Excuse me, I have to take this…”<br/><br/>Unseen by anyone else, a video feed appeared in his field of view, augmented into his vision like a hologram hovering in the air.<br/><br/>It was unlikely to find many open windows in the cold weather of Dystopia, but after hours of searching, one of Zach’s drones had finally made it inside the apartment of one of his marks. The drone wasn’t a toy like his now crashed bug-bot—which conveniently gave a false idea of what kind of technology he was capable of—but a far more advanced piece of hardware that had taken him several years to put together from scratch. It was much smaller, completely silent in the ears or sound sensors of the vast majority species he knew about, and while it didn’t move, the material of its plating made it almost entirely invisible.<br/><br/>The drone clung onto the ceiling of the room it had entered somewhere far up in one of the tallest buildings of Battered City, and observed. Zach’s marks were all persons of interest to him for various reasons: they had power in the city or elsewhere on the planet, they possessed technology Zach wanted, or they were simply filthy rich. Had the Aurumilia in the bar not caught his interest with this ‘job’, Zach would’ve at least considered adding her to his list, at least up until he’d decided that the risk of having his veins filled with poison or worse wasn’t really worth the benefit.<br/><br/>In any case, whoever the drone had found now had his full attention.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>