<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0e/Minzi.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/54/Meridian.jpg)</div><strong>Minzi Arkhausen and Meridian</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xhczfRrIxRCP7irRm1mmzvHdA0Zk83NwdbJm9fNqKh8/edit)<br/><br/>After a few minutes of fingers dancing over empty air interspersed with bites of food, Minzi gave a soft whistle.  “This guy is<em>insanely</em>rich, people.  I mean, he owns his own<em>planet</em>.”<br/><br/>She snagged a sizable chunk of food and offered it to her familiar who—contrary to his usual grouchiness, took it carefully from her hand.  He even chewed a few times before swallowing and licking Minzi's finger's clean.  “He's also a bully.  I can't find a report on him without someone chiming in with a story of how they'd been mistreated, and he really seems to do it out of snobbish cruelty.”<br/><br/>She preened Meridian, took another bite of her food, and fed the compy another morsel while she pondered.  “I rather doubt the usual means of legal persuasion will mean much to this guy.  There've been law suits filed against him, pay offs in the hundreds of millions of credits that were basically meaningless to him.  His lawyers have managed to shield him from anything the courts will throw at him.<br/><br/>“Let's go see if his bodyguards are as good—or as loyal.”