Chapter 7 By Green The first thing I saw when Frazer opened the door at the end of the corridor was a flight of stairs. We climbed them and came into a room with what looked like a front desk, which made me confused because this clearly couldn’t be the “front” of the building. The woman behind the desk immediately stood up as soon as she spotted us approaching. “Mr. Maerd,” she greeted Frazer politely. “Welcome back. My visitor records didn’t note that you were returning.” Her eyes flicked to Bluu and I. “Is there anything I can do for you?” “Sorry about the sudden visit,” Frazer said. “These are my friends from the Wang Group. We’re here to see my father.” I noticed that he didn’t introduce us by name and wondered if it was because he didn’t trust this receptionist. I remembered his words about Sunside-sympathizers being in Nozpin. Keep a low-profile, Jimmy, I told myself. “Of course,” the woman said, making a quick check-in on her computer. “Let me see where he is.” She picked up the front desk phone and, in less than a minute, she directed us to go down another hallway, where she said someone would be waiting to take us to Freddy Maerd. Our guide was another woman, taller than the previous one and with honey-colored skin. The first room she took us through was a large conference room that could seat almost a hundred people. I started to wonder how many members were in Nozpin and whether Wang Group had the same amount. We stepped into an elevator and the woman pressed a button for the second floor. No one wanted to climb one flight of stairs after all. When the elevator doors slid open, I was shocked. At least ten beds were perfectly laid out from wall to wall, all with comfy-looking mattresses and blankets and even pillows on some of them. They were different colors and had different patterns on the fabric, and each bed looked personalized in some way. “Do you guys live here or something?” I asked incredulously. “We do,” the woman chuckled as she led us between the beds. “This is the floor where our most powerful members dream, so they get the nice beds. We call this the Dreamroom. Every floor has one. Of
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