Whoa... Lei-Ne was good with words. Pity though that she mistook Thomas's intent. He had been on edge because of the reaction that the Troll might have had. The samurai had seen Trolls lose their temper before and it wasn't pretty. In my experience asking only gets you rude gestures or a beating, she had said... What the...? Obviously this face wasn't used to work with the more experienced shadowrunners, they weren't selected by means of who ever gets the job done. They were hand picked for this job, the remark made the Asian drop a couple of points in Thomas's book. And the nerve on chopsticks, was she baiting him? [i]Respond to the bait, don't respond, light a cigarette just to piss her off... Ah, to hell with it![/i] "Lass, I want to keep you alive, for as long as I have need of you at least. I'm not your average thug, Mulan, otherwise I wouldn't have lived to see my age. Do with this information as you like, but don't mistake me for one of your previous colleagues." Thomas did want to keep the team alive as long as he needed them, which mostly meant until the end of the mission. Chopsticks could do as she liked for all he cared, Thomas just rather didn't deal with a Troll in berserker mode.

Red began taking the lead on the initial investigation. She sported a priority list and expressed her concern about the use of bullets. Thank god, the samurai thought, I rather not mess with the full defensive force of a corporation. She told the group that she wanted to go over magical security as soon as the mage arrived, but a message told them the mage would be a no show. Damn, now they would even have a bigger problem. If anyone of them was awakened? Thomas sure wasn't, too much metal in him to even try if he was awakened. 

"Do some corporations not use enforcers as part of their defense protocol? Maybe Thorin and I could get to know a few of them, or maybe just kidnap one of the guards and beat the information out of him? People go missing all the time, if we found one with some kind of problem, gambling, substance abuse, debts." Thomas said, continuing with the planning phase. "We could also pay someone off for the information of threaten someone's family," he continued, then, looking at chopsticks, "It's not that I necessarily like violence, it's just that it's easy and it works most times." Trying not to look down too much on her, somehow the Asian didn't look all that bad anymore. [i]The face, go figure.[/i]