[smooth jazz music]

[spelleton]

It's always raining, here; not that he minds it. Water drowns out the noise of the city, pours off the gutters, gives him a moment of peace and respite.

Or it would, if the most prominent source of noise wasn't right here in his office.

"Mr van Neth, is there something I can help you with at all?" He looks over his glasses at the man currently making himself a nuisance on his desk.