Selective Breeding | EDITING

Part 36

Ratok tapped in his codes to the computer system. Then leaned back, as Ruma hopped up on his lap. He laid there topless with a few new hickies dawned on his chest and arms. While he agreed to get her into the security footage for Quadrant 86, she still insisted on thanking him.

While it was only their second time together in that nature since the Joseph incident, he was still warry on doing to much, though she was the on to initiate both interactions. Ratok had one arm behind his head, to prop it up in a more comfortable position. His other hand was stroking Ruma's back.

He sighed in a content manner as she work diligently on searching for what she wanted. He closed his eyes as was quickly fading off. He didn't know how long he was out, or even that he was until he felt Ruma nudging him awake.

"Hm?" he groaned, as she started to stretch letting out a loud yawn that almost sounded like a bear roar. He peaked open his right eye, shielding his sensitive sleepily eyes from the bright blue light that engulf Ruma's small frame.

She mewled pawing at his chest to get him up more. He finally sat up, with yet another yawn and rubbed his eyes. "Yes?"

Ruma pointed to the screen. On it was from one of the storm nights they had a while back. It looked fairly dark and most everything on the screen was black. He tilted his head trying to figure out what he was looking at.

He saw Ruma press a button out of the corner of his eyes and the picture cleared up a bit. He could tell now this was the camera facing the enterance to the quad, and the he was now looking at the uniform of one of the guardsmen.

The picture was still far too blury for him to make out the face of the person.

"Who is this?" he asked, bringing his attention back to Ruma.

She explained very quickly that even he almost couldn't keep up.

"I believe this is the person that added in that Loaq substance. Looking at all the data it had too have been sometime this day, and this is the only person entered unregistered or preassigned to go in or around."

Ratok nodded, "Okay, so say they did add it. What is the motive?"

Ruma shrugged, "I don't know why anyone would want to mess with the experiments like this. But I have too ideas that are somewhat put together. Though I would have to talk to Vassenhilo in the morning about it." she struglled to sit upright to sign, before dropping back down to hunch over the workstation again.

Ratok signed, he leaned forward, pressing up to Ruma's back as he looked at the screen. He tapped a few things into the keypad to try and fix the resolution on the picture with no real luck. "I don't recognize who this is from the picture, but I can get their rough heights from this. Now, back to those ideas of yours. It one makes sense it might lead me to the right person."

Ruma shuffled herself about to face Ratok. "I am think one could be that they want the experiments to take more time, so that they get paid more or have a job for longer."

Ratok hmmed, "I don't know, we are all locked in for ten years, and after that it is up to us to resign for another ten. That is why I was gone for a couple of months, a few years back. From the time the contract ends, to the time we are able to resign one is about four months, and so we get to leave."

"What happens if he were to say finish all of his projects before those ten years?" Ruma asked.

"Assuming he could find a end time, than he would have to pay us all in full for the remainder of the ten years of pay. Rather it be only a couple of months, or eight years."

Ruma nodded. As she thought about that, he only had four more years until he decided to resign or not. Her thoughts started to run off towards that.

"Moving on to the next one." he kissed her temple as she got the look he came to know as her too many thoughts look.

SHe came back to him, "Well, perhaps before signing the contract, they had a better deal with another dark tradesmen and they hired them to sabotage the experiments."

"Why would someone do that?"

"Both Vassenhilo and Guritoria, his Uncle, always have the best quality at sells. Maybe to take out competition. I know that some are wanting them to take a step back from the specialty pet department. But I have learned over the years is humans love other humans."

Ratok snorted at that. "I can look into some of the newer gaurds previous work history see if any of them would have a reason to do anything like this. While you keep looking, maybe it was one of the registered people that dumped it, perhaps that could give us a clue."

Ruma nodded, and Ratok yawned again. "Sleep, I am going to be working for a while longer, I'll wake you when I am ready to head back to the tower to sleep. Then the three of us will head to Vassenhilo's in the morning."

Ratok nodded, and settled back in sleeping like the bear he was.