The Isle

"Ugh fine. Gideon Ridge. My partner's boss. Horrible smarmy self important creeper who somehow managed to have exactly the bit of tech I needed when things got desperate. And I mean desperate. I had no choice but to agree to his terms, to give him confidential information, but he put a backdoor into it and instead of waiting for me to fulfill my end of the bargain he stole the data directly, and more. And then he sent one of his goons to blackmail me. Once we dealt with her, we got the backdoor reverse engineered out and cut him off. But Tom... long story there. Basically we got in a lot of trouble and they were supposed to fire me, but..." Ugh. UGH. "Look, Magic fell on his sword for me, okay? It should have been me or Jenn fired, and it got put on Magic to make the call, so Magic... fired himself o we could keep working. But that wasn't enough for Gideon. Apparently he was behind the order that I should be fired, playing both sides. Now he's trying to get our whole program shut down and if he does that... my best friend is going to die, okay? He ruined Magic's career. And my partner is probably finished for life too, he's trying to ruin the rest of us and it is going to kill Ben and if I ever fin a way to get back at the slimy little toad...."

And the statue exploded at that, one of the shards striking Ian hard between the eyes, knocking them back.