Molly skimmed through the public information and the additional annotations that IRIS had added in regards to her upcoming meeting.
Targaryen Holding was the conglomerate parent company of the slew of companies that had taken the business world by storm last year. Now the company is a major player in a myriad of fields like pharmaceuticals, technology and software, security services and one of the best think tanks in the world.
The owners of the holding companies are easy to find for anyone with a search engine, a group of young, brilliant and charismatic entrepreneurs that had come out of nowhere with multiple breakthroughs and unlike every story of silicon valley success, they had stayed together as they built up their corporations.
Each of them is a billionaire and it hadn't been easy to schedule a meeting even with her resources but the bureaucrats and Humint agents from her world-soul had made admirable effort and now she was heading to an appointment in an upscale restaurant in a New York skyscraper. It was the most trendy place right now. It had been a subtle flex on her part to choose that as the place of their meeting. Especially since it was without a previous booking, some prince or the other had given up his table to her.
Molly didn't like such grandstanding and political plays per se, but the profiling done by her intel groups had been clear that this Viserys guy loved extravagance. She got to dress in a nice dress and bring her friends to a place with nice food, so it wasn't a total drag.
Her agents had dug deep into the paper trail of this group of wunder kids and they had found dead ends, misdirections and false trails and after hundreds of hours of investigative work they had concluded that most of the public story was bullshit. A concoction of cliches and tropes playing on the audience's preconceptions to form this image of just another entrepreneurs like Zuckerburg and Bezos.
The truth was strange, the birth certificates and graduations records were fabricated, cleverly crafted forgeries inserted into the system that are only detectable with thaumlogical forensics. The funding of the company was directed through a dozen shell companies that are legitimate business in their own right but the actual sources for the capital hasn't been detected, divinations had revealed some gold to be part of the transaction.
A reverse engineering attempt at their smartphone had shown arcane principles in its construction. Incredibly advanced arrays that could turn the phone into a spell casting foci and something like a repeater for ritual magic. It had raised concern for magical malfeasance but a more in depth array showed it was not possible to use it for a repeater unless you were of a sufficient magical weight. This was a ritual array to spread the influence of a god.
That had been a tense day at the Last station but Molly's crown had shown that there was no malevolent intention behind the designs but that had been the inflection point that had made him making this meeting a priority for her.
Her car pulls into the parking lot and she taps black riders and says "Behave."
She and her friends walked up to the exclusive elevator and they got in there as the elevator took them straight to the top.
"Does anyone have any last minute revelations, I know you have been observing them all in your own ways so did anyone find anything?" She asks the group.
Harry just shakes her head, his divinations have been running into a blank wall and multiple attempts to sidestep the defenses have failed to gain all but the most peripheral knowledge.
"I found some ghosts observing them from afar, the 'physical' eyes weren't affected by their defenses but their own buildings and plants were warded very tight. It has been slow going, they practice at least some operational security. They have a no business talk rule in their commute." Lydia says with a displeased look on her face.
"I talked to some sources I have in the industries they are in and they appear to be on the Up and Up. Their employees are well treated surprisingly so in those fields, their pharmaceuticals are pretty safe despite the expedited testing and release and their political actions have generally had a positive impact on the world. They somehow got the republicans to care about climate change as a part of their party agenda. No nefarious activity that I heard about but strangely I haven't been able to talk to any of their employees, they always spook whenever I approach them or send someone to approach them." TIffany explains and she looks intrigued by the challenge.
"I talked to Daenerys, she was a nice girl. She has some interest in theology and I just ran into her in the seminary. She does seem unusually mature for her but some teenagers can be like that so I can't be too judgmental." Michal shrugs and says, the people around give him an exasperated look but they don't say anything. The lord works in mysterious ways.
"Well its time to meet them now. Its our floor." She says as the elevator stops at the top floor.
They step out and face their next challenge as defenders of reality.
Omake about Viserys and the crew getting sent to this world, First part for now but I intend to continue it.