11-15-2017, 11:27 AM
Jacinda frowned as she looked at Vega's record. The man had been solid.
Yoshi spoke up and for a moment Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber seemed startled. Jacinda smiled and winked at him. People always under-estimated the quiet guy. Even ignored him. Jacinda knew his worth. Not that she was gonna be the quiet person. Not her style.
More importantly, he was right. Vega had been Atharim for a long time. In her life, politics was not something she really care all that much about. Who cared who was President or whatever when you had rougs and chupes to hunt down. Or some poor sap who'd been taken by a wefuke. But even with all that, she knew that sometimes something happened- some national disaster or calamity or whatever- school shootings, the thing in Dayton with the nuclear reactor, stuff like that- that put everyone up in arms and looking for a scape goat. Congressional hearings that went on for days. Damn, but she'd been sitting at a bar trying to have a drink and the ticker along the bottom would always be talking about this or that investigation or special prosecutor.
Brandon, the prick, had already outed the Atharim. It was bad but livable, as long as there was nothing concrete to blame on the them. Well, the attack on Brandon was something, but that was Brandon and he'd lived- how she didn't know- and there hadn't been a lot of collateral damage. If specifics got out about Atharim jobs, though....well, she didn't know if the CCD had congressional hearings or whatever, but she'd bet that it'd be pretty easy to get a mob going. Brandon- the man the Regus had called Apollyon, which she was more inclined to believe now, after seeing his injuries and return to health days later- would be a fool not exploit that. They even had a Consulate of Propaganda (and how about that!?! They didn't even shy away from calling it what it was! It made he laugh.)
No. They had to do this quietly. They needed intel. "Yoshi's right. We don't want to cause a scene. Likely the kid has hunkered down."
She frowned, thinking. "We need surveillance. Find out the lay of the land. Back entrances. Stuff like that. And..."
trailed off, something occurring to her. "Vega was a solid agent. There has to be a reason he decided to abandon his principles. That may give us some leverage. If we can't lure him back to our side- at least enough to let us at Nox- we may be able to use it in some other way."
What, she didn't know. She had his file. He was married and had a son. They could be useful.
She looked at them and then around at the safe house. She knew there was a bunker here with stuff. "Let's get what we need and and go find out what we can find out."
"She had her staves strapped her thighs. And she had her EM weapons too. Wasn't going anywhere without those.
Yoshi spoke up and for a moment Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber seemed startled. Jacinda smiled and winked at him. People always under-estimated the quiet guy. Even ignored him. Jacinda knew his worth. Not that she was gonna be the quiet person. Not her style.
More importantly, he was right. Vega had been Atharim for a long time. In her life, politics was not something she really care all that much about. Who cared who was President or whatever when you had rougs and chupes to hunt down. Or some poor sap who'd been taken by a wefuke. But even with all that, she knew that sometimes something happened- some national disaster or calamity or whatever- school shootings, the thing in Dayton with the nuclear reactor, stuff like that- that put everyone up in arms and looking for a scape goat. Congressional hearings that went on for days. Damn, but she'd been sitting at a bar trying to have a drink and the ticker along the bottom would always be talking about this or that investigation or special prosecutor.
Brandon, the prick, had already outed the Atharim. It was bad but livable, as long as there was nothing concrete to blame on the them. Well, the attack on Brandon was something, but that was Brandon and he'd lived- how she didn't know- and there hadn't been a lot of collateral damage. If specifics got out about Atharim jobs, though....well, she didn't know if the CCD had congressional hearings or whatever, but she'd bet that it'd be pretty easy to get a mob going. Brandon- the man the Regus had called Apollyon, which she was more inclined to believe now, after seeing his injuries and return to health days later- would be a fool not exploit that. They even had a Consulate of Propaganda (and how about that!?! They didn't even shy away from calling it what it was! It made he laugh.)
No. They had to do this quietly. They needed intel. "Yoshi's right. We don't want to cause a scene. Likely the kid has hunkered down."
She frowned, thinking. "We need surveillance. Find out the lay of the land. Back entrances. Stuff like that. And..."
trailed off, something occurring to her. "Vega was a solid agent. There has to be a reason he decided to abandon his principles. That may give us some leverage. If we can't lure him back to our side- at least enough to let us at Nox- we may be able to use it in some other way."
What, she didn't know. She had his file. He was married and had a son. They could be useful.
She looked at them and then around at the safe house. She knew there was a bunker here with stuff. "Let's get what we need and and go find out what we can find out."
"She had her staves strapped her thighs. And she had her EM weapons too. Wasn't going anywhere without those.