“First you tell me whether or not you’re from Paragon-Asia,” Laney suggested. “Firm in question’s a couple of lines of code in a machine in a backroom in Lygon Street,” Blackwell said. “A dummy, but you could say it’s our dummy, if that makes you feel better.” “I’m not sure it does,” Laney said. “You fly me over to interview for a job, now you’re telling me the company I’m supposed to be interviewing for doesn’t exist.” “It exists,” said Keith Alan Blackwell. “It’s on the machine in Lygon Street.”

