"Gentlemen, - Sequoia looked at the men around and made the unusual serious face that was even somehow scary, - since Erik wanted to pay some specific attention to the Cretan case, I suppose we should sit down and carefully discuss it." Sequoia leaned on a table and unfastened top buttons on her dress to attract the attention of the male auditory. "We know nothing about the alien threats Erik and the others told us about, we're on a distance from it. We know that it exists, but we're not concerned on fighting it that much - Hope don't have powers needed for that and our and Order's interests quite differ on the matter. But."
Sequoia smiled because finally people were listening to her. "Erik never told me a lot, but from what I heard, the Crete nowadays is a strange place. When I heard that they started open conflict with Zoners, who, - Sequoia pauses trying to remember something, - who were sending them food for years as I heard from my visit to Freeport Nine some time ago, - but even not that makes me cautious towards them, but the fact how they affect our business. And I suppose that they affect it in a bad way. We all know that."
"I'm not only a cute addition to a party, yay?"
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Sequoia looked at the men around, straightened her dress and wondered, - "Was anyone listening to me at all or what?
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