Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Corporate Espionage

Gyda sat near the window of the temporary executive suite in the half-finished Governor's Palace of City Titan.

Her hands rested on her swollen belly, feeling the rhythmic kicks of the "Asset" the unborn heir to the Industrial Directorate.

Though she had no way of knowing what kind of Manager the child would eventually grow into, she calculated the genetic probability: with Ragnar's vision and her fiscal discipline, the child would surely optimize the world, would he not? Despite being in utero, the child was already demanding resources at an accelerated rate, much like a startup in its growth phase.