Master Ingyen, Unanticipated Informant ~ by SaralynArati

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I truly wonder what Prem is going to do with this information. The saddest thing is that it seems nearly everyone around her knows what happened to Cat's father, except for Cat herself...

9 years ago

SaralynArati

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"Perhaps he even made the mistake of trying to get back out of the syndicate which had taken him in and rely on his art alone, as it was just beginning to be popular. Whatever. I never knew the reason at the time, but it is clear that he made himself more valuable to someone as a corpse than as a living man." "I see, sir, thank you," says Prem Deva. Master Ingyen gives one of his vanishinly rare smiles, and says, my memory may be imperfect, operative, but I will also look within the codex."

9 years ago

SaralynArati

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"Yet that plan was vetoed because?" asks Prem Deva. "You're astute, agent. It was vetoed because of his volatility. He would make grandiose, bragging claims of being able to rob, single handedly, impossible places to breach... and then, almost always he came up with the goods! But we felt that trait would get him into trouble sooner or later. And either he angered a rival within or without of his own gang, or became expendable... or, he was very handsome; it could have been woman trouble."

9 years ago

SaralynArati

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"In fact," he reminisces, "my job back then was not so different from the one which you perform now, Prem Deva," he adds, unexpectedly. "I have some recollection of this young man, as he was a brilliant artist, and even more skilled thief, trying to maintain his free-agency from the syndicates, trading with one this week, and that, the next. It couldn't last long, of course, although I can't recall exactly into which synicate he was finally absorbed. We even considered recruiting him briefly."

9 years ago