[Day 4 - Late Afternoon] Expo-Exp(l)o(re) (Barre Civic Centre)

[Priya Khatri]

"Something of the sort." She nodded at the question. "I have wondered the same thing when it comes to my work when it comes to Network Security...but how often do you find yourself guarding a bank vault, really? It probably helps you look at stories decades or centuries ago. I don't think I'll ever deal with a situation where the robber worked as an employee for months while seducing the bank manager, then blowing up the vault before flying off in a seaplane and living out their years onboard an oil rig before discovered some decades later...True to a point, I'm sure. There's so much room for embellishment on part of the researcher already. We've advanced so far that nothing like that could be possible now. Maybe it is up your alley since tales can be from an old-fashioned era."

"James Rye...I think he goes by Emilio Gomez here. I don't know how tolerant you might be when it comes to science fantasy. That doesn't seem like your realm unless you're hiding a fanciful side somewhere?" She looked at him curiously.

[Leo Knight]

"Not too often. Good point." Leo said dryly. It was hard to tell if he was being serious. He wasn't. "But that sounds like a lot of work. I guess things were different before, well..." He shrugged. "The big corps make a difference even in crime."

He looked at her, eyes narrowing. "I've tried it. Didn't hate it. I'd try more of it." It was a mild response, but a positive one; Leo was perhaps downplaying his interest. "James Rye is his pen name? I could give it a try."

[Priya Khatri]

"They say that back then people had a flare for the dramatic, were more willing to play games to get what they want. But, that just might be people having some romanticism of the past when it comes to doing things the rebellious way, thinking that they have some chance to outsmart everyone and get away with the big prize, no one none the wiser. It's a bit too optimistic but does that mean that optimism is missing nowadays?" She asked as a rhetorical question with a shrug of her shoulders.

"I guess we can both give it a try, maybe start some sort of committee book club," she let out a small chuckle, not entirely serious about it. "I'm sure you're already busy with your job, on top of everything else you have to do for the committee, Mister Knight."

[Leo Knight]

Leo shrugged. "Maybe it is. I guess we get to see how things have turned out, and be realistic about it."

He gave her a nod. "Yeah. It's been a pleasure, Ms Khatri. Maybe we'll talk books again some time."

[Priya Khatri]

"Of course, Mister Knight," she nodded in acceptance as she tossed her coffee cup in the nearby receptacle. Giving a few taps of her PAD on her wrist, it projected a holographic card in the air for Leo to accept. "Here's my contact if you need to contact me for anything. I'm sure you already have my number but that's my personal line. Enjoy..."

She gave a glance around the expo, stopping on Sandra momentarily and the sort of people she was talking earlier, before looking to Leo. "Enjoy the Expo, I supposed."

With that, she made her departure with Zeus.

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