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– Mr. Shad’Aran’s holding has acquired the rights to the adjoining property,” my lawyer explains. – Technically, part of the building falls within his claim, but we can try to build a process around the misappropriation of the land. I think, and colleagues will agree with me, that it’s possible to find enough… hmmm… suitable projects and development plans for us to…

I raise my hand, calling for silence.

You could hardly call R’ran and I friends, but before he married, we used to hang out at the same boys’ club. No, not shoving hundred-dollar bills into the strippers’ thongs, but mostly chatting about men’s business, sports, life. Last year, for my birthday, he sent me some idiotic, but obviously terribly expensive sculpture of a very alternative moon, and I responded by presenting him with an equally idiotic painting.

Where was I going with this?

R’ran Shad’aran is hardly a man who doesn’t know what he’s doing, quite the contrary. If he’s got his hands on something, I’d wager my collectible Bentley from the First Lunar Eclipse year that it’s no accident, but a coincidence.