[hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=orangered]Caesar[/color] & [color=darkgoldenrod]Keystone[/color][/i][/b][/h1]
[img][/img][hr][b][color=dimgray]Location:[/color][/b] Chicago (Grimaldi Books)
[b][color=ff4500]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A
[b][color=b8860b]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A [hr][hr][/center]

	It was the "please" that caught Caesar's attention. Giving it an nanosecond of thought, it was probably the first time in a great wile that someone had used that word with him, intending upon being polite. Or at least going through the motions of polite behavior. It could be said that the effort meant something. Now, he had heard "please" before, as obviously everyone had at some point in time in their lives, but the last such occurrence that sprung to mind involved shoving a particularly uncouth drug dealer into the business end of a commercial woodchipper feet first. [i]That[/i] "please" was reserved for two things, the first being a loud, urgent request to not mangle him - the second was to just put a bullet in his head and get it over with. It was a horrible and messy way to die. If memory served, Caesar didn't waste the ammo. 

	Now, the idea was pretty simple, if they thought about it. The two of them had to give a little information to (maybe) get some back. It was like starting a business venture: You had to spend money to make money. In this case, information was just as valuable as cash. Caesar needed greater insight as to their situation, and he had to fork something over to get it. Preferably something related to the nature of the bookstore, but a connection between the victims. Plus the other guy said "please". How could he refuse now? With a sigh, Caesar said simply, [color=ff4500]"The investigation has uncovered a possible link between the murders and a group called Juno."[/color] It was best to keep things a little vague. [color=ff4500]"I cannot explain much more because we do not know much more. That is the connection."[/color] Hopefully, Caesar didn't just put someone else's life in danger for the telling of it. 

	Keystone had his own reservations about being in the building, now that he knew that Wentworth Security handled their electronic surveillance. That probably meant that there was a copy of the video saved to some temporary server someplace in a corporate office in the Wentworth network. [color=b8860b]"Those're a shady bunch, them Wentys, ma'am. Bloody cocksmokes, the lot of 'em, got no problem facilitatin' a murder to keep contracts in the black. Had dealings, y'see. Not ever again."[/color] He nodded, as if the strength of his assessment had any particular bearing on the present situation. So far as Wentworth having eyes on them right at that moment, it was very possible that it was coincidence. They were a large and reaching security company, as was MSS, and they had the leg up with certain technological aspects of the industry. Machete Security Solutions had primarily been a manpower and sourcing based company, willing to staff a building or secure an area, launch investigations and assist local law enforcement, let alone the obscure and quasi-legal actions of the Special Projects division that solved problems on a more direct, more personal level. But Alicia was bringing the company leaps and bounds into the digital and information age, eating up a chunk of the market that Wentworth had a strong hold upon for a while. That job now fell to her younger cousin and her new team, but there was going to be a gap of time while she familiarized herself with everything and got on track. 

	His own feelings on Wentworth aside, the woman's sarcastic words of "ancient spells of hokum and fairy tales" did provoke a subject to come to Keystone's mind. One that might actually be of assistance to their investigation, seeing as someone was kind enough to hack their electronics mid-flight to tell them about it. [color=b8860b]"Yeah, I'm knowing that you're all busy and the like, but s'long as you're on about fairy tales, you got any knowing 'bout a thing called [u]Lunillud Aleae[/u]?"[/color] He wasn't sure that he had gotten the words out quite right. [color=b8860b]"That the proper way? Luni-llud Al Eae? Nah, not seemin' right."[/color]