God knows what I’m doing here, the mage thought with a sigh. It’s fifteen minutes before midnight and this could have waited until tomorrow. All the corps I’ve been checking out have hermetic circles and goons around their laboratories, and none of my little spies have been able to entice one out far enough to fry them. It’s all been standard security, ordinary precautions, the usual drill. Whoever’s behind Smith and Jones could have easily learned the same without paying me thousands of nuyen.