[Not one to be left out, Charlie shifts his weight forward onto his elbows as well. It's not a wide table; there's a convenient side effect of interposing between the two of them as he does it.]
It's more smuggling than anything. The Initiative nominally lets you cart nonsense back from missions - so clients hire us out, we pull an assignment from the higher ups that seems promising, and bang [--he punctuates it with a sharp gesture--] kill two birds with one stone. Gets us off the bloody island and earns us something off the back end: win, win.
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It's more smuggling than anything. The Initiative nominally lets you cart nonsense back from missions - so clients hire us out, we pull an assignment from the higher ups that seems promising, and bang [--he punctuates it with a sharp gesture--] kill two birds with one stone. Gets us off the bloody island and earns us something off the back end: win, win.