WHO Hiro Ishikawa and Shuro Shimizu WHERE Central Park WHEN Sept. 15th, just past sunset. RATING G SUMMARY A little professional business and…. BLACKMAIL STATUS Complete
Things had been very busy at the law firm of Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin. Shuro never understood it but something about 9/11 made people want to sue one another. Pent up anger or a renewal of old pain and grudges, he didn’t know. It was an awful lot of financial litigation going on. The place was so busy they had Shuro running more random jobs than normal. He was still new, more or less, and paid well but low on the pecking order for now. Not that this displeased Shuro. He wasn’t looking to be high in the pecking order of Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin. They struck him as being rather ruthless, soulless and a little evil, and Shuro considered himself good. He just wanted the experience, he didn’t want to become it. His lack of promotion was his own doing, and he was fine with it. Except, of course, for the random errands.
He had done this one before. Lawyers like to have leverage. And when a man they are suing likes to go out at night and leave his wife at home, Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin liked to know about it. Which was sort of legal. They used this PI on occasion to ‘look into things’ and Shuro had before been given the task of exchanging the information for money. He didn’t feel comfortable standing in Central Park with a giant amount of money on him. Well, giant for him, tiny for Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin. Certainly large enough for anyone else wandering around Central Park. He was looking forward to the exchange and letting the PI deal with the money.
Shuro had met the PI a few times before and didn’t quite know what to think of him. He was Japanese, more obviously than Shuro was, and a demigod, Shuro could tell that. He was also shorter than Shuro and looked more like a girl, but that was just Shuro’s opinion. Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin were borderline greedy evil, Shuro was basically good, but he didn’t know where this PI stood. Neutral, Shuro supposed, or to the highest bidder. There are reasons someone becomes a PI and not a Public Investigator and it usually had to do with how one likes to follow rules. But that wasn’t any of Shuro’s business.
He looked at his watch again, because that didn’t make him look any more like a well dressed drug dealer. Although he supposed some people in suits did an awful lot of drugs. He wanted the PI to show up so they could make this exchange. He wasn’t late, he just wasn’t early. Shuro wanted to get this over with so he could go back to filing reports.