"Oh it’s not so bad, chummer. It’s just that the Free City has abandoned pretty much everything worth having from the last six thousand years of civilization," Michael grinned. "But the beer’s good. And the place isn’t all like this. Of course, some of it’s worse. Most of it, if I were to be truthful. But the Metropolitan, where we’re staying, that at least is an oasis of sanity. Well, it’s got security anyway, which is what we need. And we can get things here we couldn’t get anywhere else in the German Alliance. We’ve got a busy evening ahead."