You look at your watch that is still strapped to your wrist. 02:14. You had not taken it off since you came back from work. You open the portfolio file expecting the usual suspects: energy companies, shipping conglomerates, defense contractors. The kinds of industries that make sense when money starts behaving like a weapon. Instead, the screen fills with pharmaceutical companies. At first you think you opened the wrong dataset. You scroll. Another one. Another. And another. Household names. Drug manufacturers. Vaccine developers. Medical equipment firms. Companies that sell insulin, cancer drugs, surgical equipment. The list keeps going. You lean forward slightly. Blackridge isn’t just betting on markets. It is deeply tied into the global healthcare system. The firm owns large stakes in multiple pharmaceutical companies across different regions. If those shares fall at the same time, the pressure on Blackridge’s borrowed money would rise very quickly. You begin mapping the pattern. The positions are not random. Several of the pharmaceutical companies depend on the same regulatory cycles and drug approval announcements. If a few bad results arrive in the same week, their prices could drop together. A synchronized decline. Exactly the kind of movement that would make Blackridge’s internal risk systems light up with warnings. Your cursor rests on the screen. For a moment the work feels heavier than it did earlier. Oil companies are easy to hate. Banks even easier. Pharmaceutical firms are different. They sell treatments people depend on to stay alive. You close the window for a second and rub your eyes. Blackridge doesn’t manufacture medicine. It trades the companies that do. Still. The thought lingers longer than you want it to. You hear a faint whistling in your head. Not again, you think to yourself. --- **What do you do?** - **Dig Deeper Into Pharma Portfolios**: Investigate exactly which life-saving drugs they are betting against. [[Dig Deeper Into Pharma Portfolios]] - **Call Dane**: Tell him this feels wrong. You need a morality check. [[Call Dane - Morality Check]] - **Push the guilt down**: You have a job to do. Go to sleep. [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/The Next Day|The Next Day]]