<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Results</div><div class="spoiler_body">Totally legit. &gt;_&gt;<br/><br/>Sorry for the delay in my reply! Got a case of the busies, but I should be a bit more prompt to post now. :-)</div></div><br/><br/>Sokolov raised a dark eyebrow at Alberto's conditions. On the one hand, the first two were quite reasonable. On the other hand, the last condition wasn't. Sokolov had no intention of telling Alberto the truth about what he was retrieving in any real detail. Not yet. The Tzimisce specialized, as the poet Emily Dickinson said, in telling all the truth, but telling it slant. Alberto just wasn't ready for the full glory of the truth, but this test would give Sokolov a wonderful idea if he was or not.<br/><br/>The Sabbat Cainite paced around for a moment, making a great show of 'contemplating' Alberto's offer, before saying at last, "Very well, a raise. And the stipend for additional expenses is fine, but given that this is a mostly local job, that stipend isn't to exceed ten grand...and that includes bail if you manage to get yourself arrested for breaking and entering like a common burglar."<br/><br/>Sokolov met Alberto's eyes and said, "As for the last condition...I can only tell you so much. It's a rare...religious...document, very old. Irreplaceable. " He's hesitated to use the word 'religious,' but...it was potentially a piece of the Book of Nod. If anything ought to have counted as religious, surely any part or parcel of the Book counted? Telling the truth slant indeed. Sokolov continued on to say, "The individual who owns the document will be<em>very</em>wroth once he realizes it's gone. It won't be possible to leave a fake in its place. There may be retaliation of a physical nature if you're discovered stealing the item. Then again, if I thought you couldn't handle it, I wouldn't be employing you to do it, now would I?"