Her request makes him drop his overly friendly facade. He wasn’t planning on doing anything catastrophic. Well, if this went wrong, it would be catastrophic for him, but nobody else in particular. “I’ve already tried making it myself. I’d prefer to get that job sourced out.”
“And- no. I’m not planning to do anything that could hurt anyone. Well, that’s a lie, it could potentially kill me if it goes wrong but high risk high reward. Hyperion stole something from me a while ago and I’m trying to get it back. They don’t have it, so I’m trying to…It’s hard to explain.”
They were giving too much away. That could be dangerous. Who knows who this Blackbird has connections with?
“Long story short, I’m not blowing anything up or hurting anyone else with it. I need it for me, myself, and I. And payment is not an issue. Trust me. I’ll even help with setting up whatever. This is important to me. What they stole from me was…very important, but I believe it can be replaced. Or recreated anyway. If a little more volatile than before.”
Maybe the amount of Eridium sounded ridiculous to her, but to them, it was calculated.
“It’ll all be contained in case the thing goes wrong. I don’t imagine anything catastrophic happening though. I’ve been doing the math for years.”
“And are you good at math?”
She wasn’t going to seal the deal just yet, she needed to be absolutely sure she wasn’t enabling something horrible. She’d done that once already and was struggling to live with herself over it. “Putting yourself at risk is one thing–I don’t care what you do to yourself–but you understand what might happen if you’ve made any kind of error, even a small one.” If he’d gone through all the trouble to begin finding a source of eridium, surely he’d spent enough time considering what he was doing and the potential consequences. “I hate to be a nag, but I have my business to think of; if you make a mistake it looks bad on me. And someone’s gotta look out for Pandora.”
In her head she was already making lists of known eridium sources, how much they were reported to contain, and contacts who might be able to point her in the direction of more. With two vaults opened there was no shortage of eridium, the issue had become everyone’s aversion to it. In the wake of Hyperion, mining had all but stopped and people were more cautious when it came to buying and selling the iridescent mineral.
“Hyperion took a lot of important things from a lot of people. Just don’t take anything else away from them trying to get yours back.”
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