I-196-Oliver: Captree Main Orbital, Concourse Café

“Because he’s utterly empty, you try and push him on a point and there’s no response.  Escalate requests for Bureaucratic co-operation – nothing.  He never blocks, but he never helps either.  Sometimes you get a superficial response but it’s usually a referral to somewhere else.”

In response to his comment about security contracting his mother eyes him in the same way she did when he gave his explanation about his involvement in the noodle incident when he was a kid; as then, she makes no comment but a ‘Hmmm’ noise.

She takes some time to eat and then, “So, what now?”