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Your rucksack is not brimming with anything. Your cup of orbs is empty, as is one of Gil's pockets. (He's refilling it right now.)
"I don't understand," you say.
"Um, I-I do." He's also filled a small cup full of suspicious liquid, and is sucking it up with his tongue in intervals. (Rubbing it in?) "He doesn't fucking live here."
"Gil! I—" You pinch your lips. "He has to live here. This is <span class="mu-i">his</span> penthouse."
"Says who? Says that guy you bit? Who even was he?"
"Says the— says the caterers! And Fred! Mr. Kemper and Mr. Kurz are having light refreshments in Mr. Kemper's penthouse."
"And you trust an unperson? Especially that thing? I-it barely knows up from down. Either i-it's mistaken, or—"
"There's refreshments!"
"—it's been misled. Maybe this is Casey Kemper's pad in the system, whatever the system is, but he actually lives somewhere else. Or he doesn't live anywhere. I-I-I'm still not convinced he's an actual guy."
"You met him!" God, would Gil stop crunching?
"And that didn't convince me, so I-I don't know what to tell you. Do you think i-i-it's more likely he doesn't live here, or that he lives here, but he doesn't own any stuff? <span class="mu-i">Any</span> stuff? Anywhere?"
Loathsomely, Gil isn't exaggerating. There's furniture in Casey's penthouse, all right, and big windows, and a desert-themed bathroom with an 'oasis' combination bathtub/hot tub, but it's all pristine. The king-size bed is made up like nobody's slept there. The wardrobe is empty. Every single drawer you and Gil checked is empty. "Maybe he knew he were coming, and he hid every single clue?"
"Lothhi—" Gil removes his tongue from the cup. "Lottie, that's worse. Do you realize that's worse?"
"Fine." You fold your arms. "He doesn't live here. But he's still coming here, right? So we're going to spy on him."
"We are?"
"Yes. We have to." You have to get something out of this, orbs excepted, so you won't have wasted precious bombing time. "I don't know if you were looking for hiding places, but I was, so don't worry. I have ideas..."
(Choices next.)
