“How so?”
“We’re almost broke,” Chloe admitted. “This extravagance here is just a symptom of my denial.” She grinned. “But then again, I can afford it.”
“I’m glad you’re covered,” Phillip said, “but this puts us all in a bad way. How are we broke? I thought the Seneca Report–”
“The data we got from Seneca had problems,” Chloe said. “To be honest, it’s damn close to useless. We’re lucky we got what we did out of it, and how it’s going to affect Wings is still hard to tell.”
“Yeah,” Phillip said. The Seneca Trials, a school-wide testing metric, had been tainted by the leak of an example answer sheet a day before the administration of the test. One class’s data had to be disregarded entirely, while it was believed that roughly fifteen percent of the rest of the students were using at least partial copies of the cheat sheet. To say that people at the Foundation were fired over the blunder– the answer sheet should never have left the Old Fortress– would be to state merely the most obvious repercussion.
“Still, we got sixty candidates out of it, right?” Phillip added. “That’s better than the revised expectations.”
“Not hard, when our revised expectations were just the control group,” Chloe chuckled, humorlessly. “Still, with each problem that Wings runs into, Daniel becomes more and more irritated that you were willing to gamble on it.”
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