Life and Production: S3 E3: Egretta Garzetta

Attractions

No national park ever existed in Delaware. And under the Great Transition, that fact remained. The state parks were all auctioned off to private individuals or charitable organizations. Regardless of whose hands the lands were transferred to, the privatization of property once run by the government allowed for cleaner parks and more interesting tourist attractions. From the standpoint of visitors to the state, the draw of plants and animals and walking trails and campsites was heightened as the owners went through painstaking processes to ensure that their own parks were pristine and inviting. The green leaves glistened and the gravel trails beckoned bicyclists and walkers to tread those grounds.

Offers

In a state where the official bird is a chicken, Trevor Lesane chose to look forward to viewing herons and egrets. Lesane didn’t care about egrets. His knowledge that they were egretta garzetta stayed with him but he paid little attention to them. Whenever Saffron, Preston, and Symphony visited Harmon Park, he brought along at least one robot and of course his smartwatch, smartphone, and tablet. Saffron brought along a professional grade digital camera to shoot the landscape. Lesane derived pleasure, however, at the look of his daughter’s face as she looked up through the trees at the rising sun. Preston enjoyed catching and releasing trout and other fish at the lake. Lesane checked the stocks on the WiSE through all of this, not minding the verdant surroundings. His smartphone alerted him to a message from Tal indicating possible buyers of DACA. It read that Tal was sent the offers from a large pharmaceutical company called FarmaCo but DACA for three billion dollars. Lesane smirked. DACA was not up for sale no matter the offer. Saffron smiled as she snapped a photograph of an American Robin.

"That's a turdus migratorius," remarked Lesane. He then returned to his smart device. Tal sent Lesane a digital document detailing the figures of the trade.

Diligence and Pride

With offers now reaching $30 billion, Lesane never budged. He glanced at the cerulean sky and at the rich foliage enveloping him. Tal continued to inundated Lesane’s tablet with bids for DACA. This kind of pressure drove Lesane. He viewed the possibility of selling his prized creation as a “no deal” situation. But the constant attempts at securing rights to DACA emboldened him to keep all ownership. The sun wheeled its way across the late summer sky. While his family motioned for him to set down his electronic devices and join them on the lake, Lesane pressed forward. He refused to complete any deals requiring him to forfeit what he had worked on with diligence and pride. With possession of his percentage in Lesane Laboratories being seventy percent, Lesane balked at any chance that some other company could just swoop in and take what he had built. Tal’s final document that he sent to Lesane consisted of a single document. Inscribed on it was a simple request to for him to sell all of Lesane Laboratories for $20 billion dollars.

His Last Reflection

Lesane’s glacier cold demeanor when it comes to a trade shown through. He ran down the list of actions that he had to take in order to establish his laboratories. He contemplated the various, numerous college educated chemists who dismissed Lesane and his middle school education. He recalled the blatant acts of racism such as when a white investor told him, “All blacks are good for is cleaning up the lab, not experimenting.” In his last reflection, he remembered Tal, who came to Lesane in his mid forties. The two men interacted with each other as traders. Lesane knew that in addition to running his laboratory, he would need the business sense to sustain his enterprise. That was Tal. His expertise on the market supplied Lesane with the know-how in creating a multi-billion dollar company. Tal did that. With one swipe of his finger, Lesane declined to sell DACA or Lesane Laboratories. He called Tal on the digital display.

“Hey, young man. Those were nice tries, I’ll admit.”

“Yes, well I know that I had to at least let you see them just in case you would change your mind,” Tal said.

“You know me, Zev, It’s my company and I plan to keep it that way.”

“You’re the man,” Tal said.

“Yes, sir.”