[ Just in case. That's what hovers in the air between them. And it's the thing she doesn't like, why she'd been so frosty to him earlier. He hates the idea of leaving her alone permanently, should anything happen, but no matter how this goes down—he's buying her time. If it goes how he wants, it'll be one less problem they'll have to worry about.
And if it goes sideways, well, she'll have her freedom. Something she should have never had taken away from her. ]
There's a discolored brick in the wall behind the club with twenty thousand kruge. It's enough to bribe the stadwatch, at least. [ A final resort. He's nothing if not a planner and he's had to think of every angle. Including the worst case scenario. ]
I want you to get everyone out of the city, if I'm not back by six bells. [ It's why he needs her to stay. She's level enough to keep her head if everything goes rotten. And more importantly: he might be the schemer but she's the glue that holds all of them together. They'd all felt her absence and been poorer for it, when Van Eck had stolen her away. ]
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Date: 2021-02-07 11:39 pm (UTC)[ Just in case. That's what hovers in the air between them. And it's the thing she doesn't like, why she'd been so frosty to him earlier. He hates the idea of leaving her alone permanently, should anything happen, but no matter how this goes down—he's buying her time. If it goes how he wants, it'll be one less problem they'll have to worry about.
And if it goes sideways, well, she'll have her freedom. Something she should have never had taken away from her. ]
There's a discolored brick in the wall behind the club with twenty thousand kruge. It's enough to bribe the stadwatch, at least. [ A final resort. He's nothing if not a planner and he's had to think of every angle. Including the worst case scenario. ]
I want you to get everyone out of the city, if I'm not back by six bells. [ It's why he needs her to stay. She's level enough to keep her head if everything goes rotten. And more importantly: he might be the schemer but she's the glue that holds all of them together. They'd all felt her absence and been poorer for it, when Van Eck had stolen her away. ]