Tikki puzzles over this. The corporate side of human affairs always confuses her, perhaps her greatest weakness. People go into their office buildings, and then they come out. Sometimes. she is waiting there for them. This is what she knows best. The rest is like a suspicion, a scent hanging in the breeze, taunting her with the tenuous trace-scents of prey, but elusive as a shadow. "What are you saying? This Seretech owns BioDynamics, and so this Ohara, who is vice president for one. can influence what happens at the other?"