Chương 78: P: Circumstances

 The Queen of Eks Corp's specialist finished his report, and looked at the Prince of Eks Corp expectantly.

Brendan was tempted to turn and look at his mother expectantly, but instead he gave the man a polite nod and stood up. "If we will definitely have agents using that tactic to slip in then we might as well treat that as an opportunity rather than struggle to cover an obvious hole. We'll begin the installation as planned."

Calista had remained silent throughout the report, but now she objected, "Calling a flaw an opportunity doesn't remove the flaw!"

"No," he agreed simply. "But we don't have time to do anything else. Even if I decided that it meant we had to simply let everyone and everything that isn't available for the chosen equipment upgrade date go, we'd still have managers in every department making 'important' exceptions."

"So do you think that if you call it an opportunity, it changes anything?" his mother asked sharply.