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Alifax could say he wasn't sure why he hadn't turned back toward Busthind the moment he'd seen those BIGSIS posters, but he was sure: he'd never liked looking suspicious, and openly wanting to avoid the live video feed was certainly suspicious. Besides, he didn't really have much of an excuse to come here often - all his friends lived, strangely, in the Fronds, and he himself lived, obviously, up in the mountains. It wouldn't be suspicious for him to not come here ever again. But it'd be suspicious for him to walk away now.

Anyway, he'd made that decision early this evening. It was past him now, and he'd already completed his business in the city anyway. He swung the door to the New Hemisect City library open, and stepped out, conspicuously absent any sort of bags that could possibly contain money or books (although clearly armed, or perhaps accessorized, if you were unable to recognize the meteor chain wound securely about his neck as a weapon). He actually didn't need a map now, he thought, moving his feet down the stairs quickly.

He frowned as he passed by a worker installing the new monitor system. All this was proceeding awfully quickly - but he supposed that was the empire's style. Or perhaps just highbloods' style - they had access to riches beyond belief, he'd always thought, and also higher levels of authorization for drone requests for installation projects. And of course Her Imperial Condescension wasn't limited at all. If she wanted something done, it would get done.

And it was getting done, Alifax supposed. Preferably it'd get done out of Alifax's way: he didn't like the idea of anyone at all being able to review the things he was doing.

He walked almost without looking where he was going as he tried his find his way back toward the suburbs on the long, long trek home. Today's library jaunt had been quite informative, but he knew he wasn't losing anything by giving it up: Four Fronds, if far more intimidating, also had a far more extensive collection by virtue of it being a home to so many highbloods. Yeah, Alifax Bunsem was definitely making the right decision. Maybe he'd come back come recruitment night, but tonight? He was outta here.