#Chapter 171 The First Step

Grace The winter morning twinkled outside my office window. Gabriel answered the phone, sounding more awake than I had expected, warm and oddly cheery. "You're a morning person, aren't you?" "I haven't slept," Gabriel chuckled. "I'm on my third cup of coffee, actually. If you're calling about the Duncan delivery, then all I can say is that the plane left Mooncrest and landed there." "I'm not worried about that," I said, thinking back to the group of Enforcers that had gone with the few units of police and emergency workers I had been able to spare. "I wanted to pick your brain about... well, the whole case and how to go forward with the Senate requirements." I told him everything that I had sketched out already, including working with Earth Therapy and the Duncan Pack. He chuckled. "Honestly, resources, influence, and leverage of any sort would help, but if you want to be efficient about it, then go with the far-reaching options first." Gabriel hummed. "Well, there's the Zaiba