Ryde gulps down his shot, and says, "I'll withhold saying anything until Norum says his job."
Daniel grumbles to himself in reply. He rubs his eyes and stays quiet as he paces about the room. "Norum? What's your job?" he chimes in finally.
Norum, who had just poured his second shot, takes out his phone, and presses a button on the touch screen, keeping the phone in his hand, and begins pacing around to the table. "A man by the name of Marco Villacrés, a manager of Gauntlet Capital Group has some of the group's property held at ransom by Quo, who was contracted by a rival company to hold it. I was asked to carry a briefcase from their W. Midtown Central branch office to a Quo branch office in the Salus Quarter of Bay Bend to release the property."
Norum sits down at a hair opposite Ryde and throws back the shot and placing his phone in front of him on the table. "I didn't believe that only one pair of eyes would be safe for this mission, and so I would like some volunteers. Reward is $2,750 a head with a cap of $12,000 total. Increased risk payout is looking at $1,500 a head minimum, but negotiable and a $11,000 total cap. Our guarantor is Villacrés himself."
Norum begins to pour his third shot, this time with dark rum. "Because of the chance of diminishing returns with the more we have on the mission, I will only be selecting the finest. Now I need you to both understand, Villacrés is not big-time, but I guarantee if we do well on this mission, we may have more serious connections, and therefore, we might presume, steps close to finding the Doctor." Norum presses the button on his phone again and, from what Ryde can make out, taps and scrolls through a menu, selects a contact, types out a short message, which opens his messaging app and pushes a button to send in his open conversation.
