"Not far," Alyxa replied. "Maybe a five minute walk from here."
Alyxa led them to a safer, more lively part of the town. The blanket of latent fear was still tangible, but perhaps muted slightly. People could afford to relax a tiny bit more in a well known street lined with familiar stores and familiar faces.
Another automobile roared past as Alyxa turned in front of a small, simple, three-story building. Though it seemed relatively new, it had an old fashioned design. A sign hanging in front of the building marked it as "Tantel Surveillance and Investigation." Alyxa walked up the front steps and opened the door.
She walked into the main lobby area, a small room with chairs off to the side. At the reception desk sat a Honqip man with black hair and light skin. He wore a pair of round spectacles and was writing something on a document. As the door opened, he looked up and smiled.
"Ah, you're back! You have the data?" he asked, setting down his pencil and spectacles and walking over to the group.
"Sure do," Alyxa said. She pulled a clipboard out of her messenger bag and handed it to the man. "Can you get an analyst team to add it to our current set and start some statistics? I....well, another project has...drawn my attention."
The man scanned the group, then gave Alyxa a dry look. "Not another one. You know the government doesn't like it when you get involved in these kinds of 'projects', Alyxa."
"Oh, come off it, Qanden. The government isn't in charge of me; they just pay me to do jobs occasionally. And you and I both know that our little establishment is far to valuable for them to stop using."
Qanden sighed, then chuckled. "I suppose you're right." He took the clipboard and scanned over it's papers for a second. "All right. I'll get a team on it right away. We'll have the data ready for you once you have a free moment." He nodded politely to the rest of the group, then took the papers and left to a back room.
"Now that that's taken care of..." Alyxa turned to the group. "There's a meeting room upstairs. We can use it to talk, and plan."