That day, Malachi learned that if you ever wanted to see the head of the US national treasury turn green and faint, then all you had to do was propose an initiative that would require 80-90% of all buildings in America to be retrofitted with the latest in defensive technology.
Malachi was pretty sure that if he included the need for offensive tech in his proposal, the treasurer would have fallen over and died.
Instead, he was just irate.
"Young man…. I know you may not know how things work around here, but you don't just get to waltz in and start dropping astronomically improbable proposals with absolutely nothing that could even begin to constitute as evidence of an incoming catastro-"
The lights in the room suddenly began to flicker intensely.
Malachi spoke in a measured, tense manner so that he wouldn't accidentally let something slip past his lips that hed end up regretting.
