Entry #A-8: "Aberrant" [Audio, Private to Cesar, Backdated to Later on the 12th]

[dead_black_eyes]

Cesar.

Your secret is still safe with me, but now that Thundercorp has come out for the reason the blackouts have been occurring... there are a few questions I need to have answered. I trust you'll be forthcoming.

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Re: [Text]

[evowhisperer]

Work.

*It's eight at night.*

Next question?

[Text]

[dead_black_eyes]

Working late? Or is this normal for you?

[Perma-text unless stated otherwise]

[evowhisperer]

Both.

*For a moment it seems as though the answer will be left at that. Then he adds,* Judging by past conversations, this is not something you're unfamiliar with, yourself.

*It's not meant to be a friendly connection, but a defensive one: there's nothing for L to read into, here. L does the same as him.*

[dead_black_eyes]

Justice doesn't sleep. Ergo, I probably don't need much of it.

Do a lot of people work late at TC?

[evowhisperer]

Not often.

When they do, there's usually a deadline involved.

[dead_black_eyes]

So it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that there's a deadline on the horizon at this time?

[evowhisperer]

Yes and no.

This is not a deadline that the Numbered need to be concerned about.

[dead_black_eyes]

Are you saying that Numbered should stay out of it, or that it can't hurt Numbered? I'm pretty sure those are different things, and I so like to be clear on such matters.

[evowhisperer]

Again, I'm saying both.

It's a deadline for sending off a new iteration of an engine model to a contractor. Very mundane, and very uninteresting for Numbered purposes.

[dead_black_eyes]

I guess you don't have much reason to fabricate that. It admittedly sounds very dull.

[evowhisperer]

I have little reason to fabricate it and every reason to not want it interrupted. If I have to run any of these tests again, my laptop is going to be strapped to the next burst pressure test.

*It's a slight lie: he can think of many reasons why someone might want a Numbered to look away in boredom from a given Thundercorp project. Still, if ignoring that part keeps him from getting outside interference, he'll conveniently neglect that fact any day.*

[dead_black_eyes]

That sounds dangerous for the laptop.

How trusted would you say you are within Thundercorp? On a scale of "they don't tell you anything" to "golf with the CEO," where exactly do you stand?

[evowhisperer]

It would be explosive.

Closer to 'they don't tell me anything'. I was hired on a little under two years ago, when they were expanding several departments in waves. I'm no longer 'new', but no one in my division is exactly in any kind of 'know'.

[dead_black_eyes]

I suppose it can't be helped... and if that really is the case, it's not that you won't tell me more, it's that you can't.

[evowhisperer]

That is correct.

Did you have any other questions?

[dead_black_eyes]

No. That suffices, for now. It's something to go on, and I'm content to let it rest.

[evowhisperer]

In that case, I'm going to get back to work, now.