Chapter 12: Camp Kerrigan

Conor’s plans for the week had gone out the window as soon as Kelan had made his first move.

While he had hoped to learn about dragon corporation’s team culture over the course of a month or two by shadowing staff at the subsidiaries and local businesses before moving into the headquarters, that fell flat when Kelan started axing key staff on day one.

There wasn’t even a planning period or chance for analysis. In the first week, Kelan had fired more staff than Conor thought Vokrizin had in total!

In front of Kerrigan, he did his best to appear calm and in control but right now, standing on the platform of Bayan railway’s passenger terminal, he had half a mind to join the mass exidus heading for Jinstain.

All around him, hundreds of families gathered with carts laden with belongings. Some would be making the move as a family, while others were seeing their loved ones off, praying that they would still get a paycheck to sustain their now split family’s duel residence.

Conor’s phone ran