Decisions
68"You can't possibly expect me to offer an opinion on this 'KALEIDOSCOPE', I've only just learned of his existence."
"Your Cupbearer remains KALEIDOSCOPE."
Asset YO-YO: LOST.
Asset YOUNGBLOOD: LOST.
"Anything red..." She freezes. "Hold on, this is..." She glances back at you.
"I'm good, Hersh... I'll live."
"Have you found your answer?"
"It's cold out here." The girl rolls her shoulders and lightly stamps a foot.
"Ready to set course for the Eastern Republics, flight lieutenant." The girl gives you a 'V' salute and smiles.
Odds of him being asset SCARF: 95%. Confirmation encouraged.
"Yana sent me."
"There was a guy in a pink sweatshirt that kept asking me if we had any Ultra Violeta discs. I had to tell him they'd all been stolen about three times before it seems to have sunk in."
It's like asking a child with no experience of the world who they'll work with. He has no frame of reference.
Wait. A discrepancy, like a false note.
A faint crackle, void of meaning. Nothing else comes through.
In an underground office in Novessa, in a secret recording studio on the far side of the moon, in a glass-and-steel fortress in the most expensive part of the most expensive city in the world.
"Where to start? Just as a reminder, your task was to zero out the Grand Lich. Instead, it appears you let him loose while eliminating his most dangerous internal rival."
"Board?" The man across the desk bristles with feral tension.
