by Verdana » Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:23 am
Shay//
The weathered old veteran watched her killers accept her news. There were expressions of consternation, horror, joy, bewilderment, misery and excitement, to name but a few in the crowd. Shaygrin was not too worried about hurting feelings, though. She knew from experience that it was impossible to make any choice without at least someone feeling that they'd gotten the short end. She also knew that when they started working there would be no time for whining and stomping around in a huff. Everyone would be involved. Shaygrin would make sure of it.
Though she didn't like to admit it to herself, the job that they were working on was more than a little bit personal to her. Shay and Malicia had hated each other from their first meeting, and the enmity had only grown from there. The two women were probably as old as each other, and evenly matched in cunning and skill. They trod on each other's toes, and that was the problem. Their turf overlapped. They were too similar. Thus, they despised one another with a cool and controlled menace. Shaygrin would have no regrets about seeing Malicia dead. If it were by her hand, so much the better.
And then, of course, there was the Velia speculation. At this point, it was all just guesswork, but Shaygrin was almost certain that it had been Snark and Malicia's doing. All the more reason for her to stay out of the whole mess. She'd appoint someone else as Coordinator. Someone with leadership potential. Someone she could trust.
//Bree//
I wait for my team to come to me. Everyone in the Wren can put a face to my name, so it makes sense. I'm not entirely pleased with my mother's teaming, but I daresay I'll never been completely satisfied with anything. That would just be complacency, and I do not roll over and play dead for anything. My mother's given me a trainee, but as trainees go, he's not the worst. It's that Booker chap, and since he's a vampire my hopes for him are high. I hope he's not the traditional sort, because having one of my teammates spontaneously combust would be very inconvenient indeed. However, if he does decide to, hurr hurr, go to pieces on me, I'm sure I will make a plan. I'm resourceful that way.
My mother is handing out envelopes to the three groups. Despite myself, I feel my pulse increase. These envelopes will give us our tightrope, as it were. The time, the place and sometimes even the manner of deaths we are to deliver. We will have to dance over these rigid instructions, thinking of everything and personalising it, without breaking a rule which could lead to a significant dent in our own fate. Our envelope, to my displeasure, is handed to Stalker as he makes his way over to me. I try not to weave impatiently. When he gets into earshot, I raise an eyebrow pointedly.
Well, open it! What does it say?
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