>>FROM:@STORMBORN | >>TO:@ALL

[dorzalta]

I ask that you use caution if encountering Yhych in the courts. Or at least carry with you an anti-toxin.

[ dot dot dot . . . ]

Is anyone a weapon-maker here?



>>FROM:@STORMBORN
>>TO:@BURGERKING, @PONYTAIL, @MODERATUS, @POINTANDKICK, @DIEDHARD, @BOARING, @AEGONNER, @PERSONALSTAFF

Ignore my next message until you are alone or are able to control your reaction.

[ There will be a pause, one which seems to tick away as an eternity for her. And then: ]

I'm told Kebechet is here.

Comments

[private from:>>@AEGONNER]

[northerndragon]

Who is he?

@PERSONALSTAFF

[garbagepilot]

[Well.

That's a thing.]

Told by who?

[dorzalta]

She.

[dorzalta]

[ It most certainly is. ]

@BURGERKING
Do you recall the nurse in Gallipoli? Mary Smythe?

@POINTANDKICK [1/2]

[pointedlook]

No surprise there. I'm sure Kebechet has it out for anyone who got the upper hand last time. Or just anyone, they seem pretty spiteful.

@DIEDHARD

[mylawn]

You're 'told'? Do you trust this intel?

[northerndragon]

[... Of course. All these women he's known or encountered, Dany herself, and his sisters, and Cersei, and Ygritte, and little Lady Mormont, and he still assumed... well, never mind. He knows now.]

Who is she then. Do you know

[Is it ever really a good thing, in terms of what it says about his state of mind, when his punctuation becomes this haphazard?]

@POINTANDKICK [2/2]

[pointedlook]

How are you holding up?

[ He's definitely concerned about the mention of anti-toxin. ]

[dorzalta]

Enough to have trusted him with the life of my intended in Gallipoli.

pretend this has been private the whole time

[garbagepilot]

A name would be more helpful.

I didn't visit the nurses, I stayed in the trenches the whole time.

[dorzalta]

She was on their base when we destroyed it.

[ Or she should have been. ]

A minor poisoning for my arrogance. I'll live.

[pointedlook]

No body, no death.

[ So what if it's a movie trope? In his experience it applies to real life. ]

Yeah like poisoning is a minor inconvenience. You're lucky it was minor. Be careful, your highness.

ALREADY ASSUMED lol

[dorzalta]

Mary Smythe was ANZAC's head nurse. A stern woman many of our allies spoke with on more than one occasion.
The one who went missing after throats were slit.

[dorzalta]

[ It's an important distinction. Women are far more capable of treachery than men, she's seen. ]

Mary Smythe is here.
Kebechet is posing as the shabti secretary to Regency agent Mhic Nathair.

[ Double the insult. ]

I thought she'd died in the explosion.

[garbagepilot]

What does that have to do with Kebechet?

[dorzalta]

Mary Smythe is Mhic Nathair, the Regency agent on this mission.
Do you recall her secretary? The shabti? The nervous one who always seems to be running about.

[mylawn]

Means nothing if his source is bad.

That said, it's worth looking into. Where's Kebechet now?

@GOTTAGUN

[goodandtrue]

Did something happen? Why the anti toxin?

@ponytail; permaprivate

[horsepowered]

1. Did your source of this information explain how they came to verify this information?

2. What do you intend to do?

3. Is whatever you're intending a mission benefit?

[dorzalta]

Or it can mean everything if his source is good.

[ Which is why she's telling someone like 76. He's efficient. Focused. Strong, from all she's gathered. They need that and so much more in this place. ]

As you've said, certainly worth investigating. With a measure of caution and discretion.

She's posing as the secretary to a Regency agent. Do you recall Mary Smythe whilst we were in the nurses station in Gallipoli?

check my messages to you on disco!

[dorzalta]

We've an opportunity to us, assuming she does not yet know of our intel.
And if this information is truly accurate.
I believe it is.

[ But she is not infallible. ]

As for my own intentions, recovery. That benefits both you and I.

[ However much it chafes to sit aside, she would be far more a liability at this point whilst recovering from a poisoning. ]

[northerndragon]

[That little secretary?

That little secretary. Of course. What had he himself been like, as an untutored spy? Someone people thought little of, someone they suspected. What would one with some skill in the matter be like? Able to go unnoticed, he thinks, or disregarded when they are noticed.

For what might be the first time since he found himself with COST, he wishes they had the counsel of Lord Varys.]

Not mine to kill, is she.

[dorzalta]

So we should assume we've only destroyed resources, versus any of those who were present during the explosion.

[ Can you tell she does not sound happy, Arthur? ]

Minor insofar as I am not dying and I was able to use an anti-toxin. The repercussions are much more unbearable lord paycheck.

[1/2] public;

[dorzalta]

I'm fine.

[2/2] private;

[dorzalta]

It was a misstep in a battle of wiles. Truly, I'm fine.