5.f.
The thirteenth
floor of the Jacob Center
Tower was unique in that it had
multiple levels yet still comprised only one unit of floor designation. Corporate Man and his friendly little Union
were currently experiencing great financial trouble on level C. Two levels above them, on level A, was an
office. In that office was a person
neither Betty nor Jack. A person of
flesh and blood and vast economic knowledge and disdain.
This person
was Professor Inflation.
He sat at a
console overflowing with buttons, toggles, levels, slides, roller balls,
monitors, blinking things, numerical readouts, various printer feeds, and small
speakers.
He was
grinning.
And he was
wearing his cape.
Triggering fiscal
death traps always seemed more appropriate when wearing a cape.