in a glass wall cage that hovered over a city that appeared like a gigantic electronic circuit b

g windows, with his back to the twelve board members controlling the city's rhythm and bea

vously. "It's the last missing part. If we accept it, we will take in t

ng illuminated the buildings. He was a man whose presence filled any space with an au

w, raspy melody of his voice forced others to stop whatever they were doing in order t

l out of them," another board memb

proached the table where the contracts lay in neat piles. With each step, the r

elieve that they can use Arthur Sterling's

s but suddenly pushed all the documents off the

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same amount of coldness contained within his tone of voi

ir infra

e air with the smell of mint. With hands laid out flat, he pinned the room with a look that was bo

ting through the racket with ease. But he didn't think about the way or profit, but

, more to himself than to the others trembli