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If it is...it sounds like one that doesn't treat its employees very well.

[Ryou doesn't like the sound of it. It seems as if one of the women had strung along the second, but...actually there was someone who had strung her along as well. They both sound a little...desperate? He doesn't like it.

Who'd started this mess, he wonders, before glancing at Atem with a frown.]

Is it...something we should interfere in, you think?

[Atem gets to his feet, pushing himself off the bench.]

Hey!

[He calls, loud enough to carry over the distance to the arguing women. His back is straight, one hand on his hip, his feet planted on the ground.]

Tell me more about this "opportunity"!

[Oh, boy. Here they go.

Both women look more than a little nervous, suddenly confronted with two monsters...there's fear, guilt, and anxiety on both their faces.

"Well..." Lonnie begins. "It's, um...it's called LarSveKat...you buy inventory from the company, then sell it and keep the profit. Except that part of it," she adds, looking at her companion, "5% of everything you buy goes to the mentor of your team."

"It's only five percent, Lonnie, I can't take it back, I've still got stock of my own I need to sell," the other woman murmurs. "I don't have the capital lying around, I was counting on you..."]

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[Ryou scrambles up himself, wanting to look as attentive, but he stumbles a bit because he's still a bit worn from using his new power. He lets Atem take the lead, listening to what the women have to say with more than a mild curiosity.

...From what they're describing, it seems as if they've joined a venture which...might be taking advantage of them.

Ryou doesn't like it. He doesn't like it at all.]

It sounds very much as if the company makes most of the money here. You pay them a set price for the stock...then you are left with the responsibility of selling, and if you don't...then your investment isn't repaid, and the company...they have no responsibility to make you whole.

[He only explains it out of concern, but part of him is angry, writhing just beneath his own skin, because it seems it trickles down, and the other woman...the one who had given Lonnie inventory, had done so in bad faith.

Ryou won't accuse her yet. But he's clearly irate, as evidenced by the way his ears rotate back and lay down close to his head.]

So then...what's this with mentoring? You sell your stock to someone else and tell them to sell it in turn...?

[Both women look like they want to crawl out of their skins.

"No...if you get someone to buy stock from the company, then they become part of your team. You get part of what they make, and they get...um...support."

Lonnie is silent as the other woman explains. Support, the other woman says.

Both of them sit in their discomfort for a long moment. Until, Atem says--]

Don't worry. I'll buy what both of you have -- that should cover any outstanding debts! But I won't do it for nothing. In exchange, I want information!

There's got to be someone who owns the company, isn't there? Someone whose idea all of this was...do you know who that is?

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