The crowd disperses, mostly pleased with the show.

And his driver pair are there, parked in a sorta out of the way spot! They come over all smiling and hand him a duffle bag.

"We already took and split the thirty percent. Good run. Tranq guns are in the truck, no shots fired. I'm sort of worried we'll get fucked up if you only sell to one of the three big fuel concerns though- I think you honestly want to negotiate with them before someone decides to get Tower to negotiate for them. 'Suspicion of stolen goods', like."

"I would love your advice on how to go about that!" Cam asks, counting the cash out.

"I don't really know, we're both kind of just muscle. I guess, walk up and say you're supplying the competition and want to give them a chance to beat the price?"

There is $8225 in the bag.

Calculator app, is that what they got minus their percentage?

It's like fifteen bucks short.

He turns the result of this calculation toward the guys. "Did you have to pay a bribe or something on the way back?"

"Have to? No. But it's a good idea to. We passed right by a Tower patrol and they were looking annoyed at the size of the truck so I got out and handed them a hundred bucks."

"I have no problem doing that out of my own pocket if it don't count as an expense. Your cut is extremely generous." The younger one pulls out a hundred and proffers it.

"Nah, it's fine, just text me next time, 'k?"

"Sure thing."

"Uh, head, I think you're underestimating how much money this is for us. This is - big drug deal type money. I don't think we should be making this much."

The other guy is staring at him like 'what are you doing?!?'

"More I think about it, the more nervous I get. You're not going to suddenly say we owe you twenty grand for all the gas, start demanding criminal shit to keep the dough rolling, anything like that? I mean, I feel silly asking, 'cause of course you're going to say 'no'. I'm just saying, this is too good to be true and it's making me look for the catch. I might want to duck out before it comes along, even, two grand in an afternoon is enough to keep me going for weeks."

"There's nothing like that, I just had no idea what market rate was and made a wild guess! For all I knew you were going to tell me 'fifty fifty or no deal', or want an hourly rate instead of a percentage."

"Thirty percent is, like, the cut for a whole crew, a whole operation. From guys gathering info and watching out for possible trouble, drivers, a crash team standing by, everything. Of course we weren't gonna negotiate down, but going forward, like... Yeah. You need more guys in on this distribution thing. Split that thirty percent more ways, that's fine if we have a backup plan. When shit hits the fan- And that's a when, not an if, in Cinci- Having more than just two dudes involved will minimize the mess."

"Anybody you recommend?"

Grimace. "Most of the people I know are good eggs have their own things already or aren't super management material. I'm half tempted to pitch myself, but I'm thinking I also might not be super management material."

"It's hard! Keep an eye out, ask people if they know people maybe?"

"If anyone could do it it'd be Roland, but he's kind of sketchy. I'll think about it. Have a better one, head."

"Sketchy in a way I should worry about selling and buying stuff with him?"

"Nah, sketchy in a way where he's probably a front for someone. Or something like that. Local player, except he's not really local... Doing mysterious 'deals' all the time. It's hard to put your finger on. He's never treated his crew wrong, or so I hear, anyway."

"Well, that's something, at least."

"I'd rather have Roland on my side than some corpo, is what I'm saying."

Nod nod.

"Anyway... I promised them three trucks a week. I'll stay on for another in a couple days. You have my number. See ya."

"See ya, thank you!"

He walks off.

The disco palace construction crew seems to be finishing up for the day, packing everything away at an incomplete apartment building repair.

Cam waves at them as they pass. Looks around for Roland.

Roland is not around right now. Cam has his number or could ask the people he seemed to know earlier, though.