There it was. The Cybers would not go out of their way to meet with Ves and gift him a precious artificial fire heart if they did not seek to exploit their relationship with him. They wanted him and sought to secure his services.
Ves was not principally opposed to that. Collaborating with the Cybers on a mech design project, even an important one, was not a big deal if it was just a singular instance.
The question was whether they were willing to leave it at that. Ves had a feeling that the Cybers wanted a lot more out of him than this single request.
Ves briefly glanced at his cat. Lucky remained intrigued by the artificial fire heart. It looked as if he was resisting the temptation to take a bite out of the construct.
"Meow."
After confirming that Lucky did not detect anything amiss, Ves turned back to Hugo and thought on how he should respond to the current inquiry.
