The woman was rendered speechless; even the Inspector paused for a moment, looking at Sylas as though he couldn't believe his boldness. He had already felt that there was something odd about Sylas when he first picked him up, but he had already warned Sylas that whatever cache he thought he had in his galaxy wasn't really worth much at all here.
What the Inspector didn't expect was for the woman behind the desk to take interest in Sylas almost immediately. But he expected even less for Sylas to take such an… unconventional approach.
While it was the case that the woman seemed to be just a receptionist, this was far from the case. There was a very good reason why there was only one person here, manning so many formations and even having the details to a mission that an Inspector was on.
