A few quiet minutes pass before the receptionist speaks up again.
"She is ready to see you now, if you'll just follow-" he begins, starting to stand up.
"No need. I know the way," Lagunov interrupts, quickly jumping up and making his way to the doors behind the desk, which he holds open, gesturing for the rest of you to follow. The receptionist meekly sits back down.
The security officer leads you along a glass lined corridor, flanked by office areas filled with employees working at holographic terminals. At the end of the corridor you turn to the left down another short corridor before reaching a door at the end of it. A name plate next to the door reads;
Nereida Holland - CEO.
Lagunov opens the door and walks inside without hesitation. Stepping inside you find yourself inside a large office, decorated much like the lobby of the Asteria offices. A
woman with short black hair wearing an elegant dark dress, more high society than business, stands at a large desk in the centre of the room, interacting with a holographic display. The whole wall behind her is either a screen or a window, it is hard to tell which, which shows a wide view of the stars slowly passing by as the station rotates.
"Please, take a seat," she says as you enter, gesturing to a long board room table to one side of the office, without looking away from her work. Laid out on the table is a spread of sushi and sandwiches with accompanied by a variety of drinks. Lagnunov walks over to the table and grabs himself a sandwich before perching himself on a long sideboard cabinet which runs along the wall next to the table. A few moments later Nereida swipes down with one hand and the holographic display disappears.
She makes her way to the table and takes a seat at the head, sitting down and pouring herself a glass of water.
"Now, Darlings, to business. This will have to be fairly quick, some of the board are here from Strocho and we're entertaining them in a couple of hours," she says, gesturing at her dress as if to explain.
"So first things first, which of you can explain who are you and why you've come to my station in a stolen gunship? Hmm?" she asks, raising an eyebrow as she leans back slightly in her chair and takes a sip of water, looking expectantly you.
"The Escrosians sent us a message from Idarete a few hours ago telling us to tell them if a ship called the Furious Midnight showed up here. We thought it was a bit strange when, looking through our visual scopes, a ship called the Makkuro happened to have Furious Midnight painted on the side," Lagunov says, having just finished swallowing a bite of his sandwich, the half eaten remains of which he gestates with to articulate his point.
"Luckily for you, they barely control Idarete let alone the whole system and not our station, as much as they'd like to."
"My station," Nereida says, correcting her security chief, still looking at the four of you expectantly.
Focusing on the news cast in the lobby, you find it appears to mostly be talking about commodities' prices, with a particular focus on lithium which is apparently at a high.
