Graduation: Part 7
We told Lee after the performance. He (as Ben) had walked down to the bar to grab a beer.
Haley got up before I even noticed where he'd gone, and made it halfway across the room before I had time to even think. She didn't talk to him for very long. When she came back, she told me, "He said to wait and he'll come over."
He did, eventually. He drank his beer, flirted with one of the women tending bar, walked to the back, and into the men's bathroom. When he came out of the bathroom, he appeared to be white, in his twenties, and wearing a button down shirt that was open at least a button further than I'd ever worn any shirt.
He sat down next to Haley, and he didn't need to tell me that his name was Ryan. I already knew it.
"So?" He asked.
"You told me to let you know when the Executioner got out of jail." I switched the station to SuperTV. They were holding a roundtable discussion between retired heroes and villains with literal blow by blow coverage of Ray's escape. They would advance the video one frame at a time, halting to discuss technique, tactics and strategy.
We didn't watch it very long.
"Well," Lee (or at that moment Ryan) said, "you've got your work cut out for you. You've got three, maybe four groups that could go gunning for you, possibly together. Anyway, I teach classes tomorrow morning, so here's my suggestion -- I'll meet the team at HQ around one in the afternoon. Then we'll talk it through."
He got up. "Later."