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A Little Digging

Chan Yi sent the video feeds from Charity Fulmer's home to his internal system as he threw on a tee shirt and prepared to leave his apartment. He rewound the video and watched Charity Fulmer leave the house in a taxi. It took her through the upper levels of the Builds and into the Skylines. She left the taxi and walked into one of the high-rise apartment buildings. It was one of the more expensive places in the city and Yi was surprised to see Ms. Fulmer there. As far as he knew, she had no connection to anyone above the Builds.

He fast-forwarded the feed six hours until Ms. Fulmer left the building. He watched as her taxi pulled away from the building and another car followed after her. It stayed a couple cars behind her, but it wasn't hard to notice. Whoever had followed didn't care if they were found out, or they were idiots.

Yi would rather plan for competence than idiocy. It was harder to plan for idiots.

He grabbed a hoodie and a jacket before he slipped on his shoes and headed out of his apartment. He drove his bike toward the Fulmer house, keeping an eye on the video feed as he went. Yi stopped three houses away, behind a large truck that hid him well. Still connected to the feed, he didn't need to see them directly, but he wanted to be close by. The men that tailed her hadn't moved yet, and Yi suspected they were sent to scare Ms. Fulmer, not to hurt her. After her visit to the Skylines, he was beginning to wonder. What wasn't she telling him?

Yi stayed on his bike and took advantage of the time to investigate the people following Ms. Fulmer. He found the car registered under Mann Enterprises. An online search showed that the firm managed everything from building security to high-profile celebrity security, to private investigations. It seemed on the up and up, except that they were tailing Ms. Fulmer.

After two hours, another car came to relieve the first. Since no one was making a move on Ms. Fulmer, Yi decided to follow the first car and see where it led.

They drove through the Builds and towards a respectable looking business on the upper levels. Yi wouldn't have thought the company was anything out of the ordinary in that neighborhood, except that he'd been there before. It hadn't been called Mann Enterprises back then. When Yi had been there it had been to collect equipment and run missions from within those offices. The building was a front.

What the hell was Mariner Tech doing following Ms. Fulmer?

Chan Yi needed to do more digging. He'd looked into Fulmer Tech, but it was time to find what dirt he could about the family's personal background. As he sat on his bike around the corner from the Mann Enterprises building, Yi pulled up what information he could about his clients.

Jason Fulmer came from a poor home and built his way up from the Piles. He started as an errand boy, found his way into salesman, then made his way into management. A year after he married Charity Fulmer, he bought his own tech store. A large part of that money came from his wife. Charity Fulmer's family was high in the Builds with a background in biotech manufacturing. Her family had ties with Augalife and did some distribution work with Mariner Tech. Back in the day, there were rumors that she intended to marry herself into the Skylines, but then she met Fulmer.

Interesting. Charity Fulmer had a property that didn't connect back to her family or her husband.

Yi looked up at the Mann Enterprises building and pushed aside other memories; jobs worked from that office and the people he'd been with. If he needed to hack a Mariner Tech building, he'd need far more than what he had with him. For now, he had a lead to follow with Charity Fulmer.

Yi pulled away from the office and away from his past. The address he had on file for Ms. Fulmer's building turned out to be a warehouse on a lower level of the Builds. There was no one around but there were surveillance cameras set around the building. The security was expensive, but it wasn't set up as well as it should have been. Yi was able to hack in remotely and he made note of where the feeds were being sent. Yi cut the feeds and parked his bike. There was a side entrance by the alley and decided it wasn't worth the effort to hack it. The building was old, and it was easier to break in than hack the system.