should we help or hinder the assassination of Jedao?

[zuhrovet]

[In the current move, Flute has just informed the team that they are to accompany a group of Lanterner assassins to a conference where the Lanterners will attempt to assassinate Jedao. This post is for reactions and plans, both in and out of character.]

Sasha's quiet as the group heads from the Catastrophe Axe back to the Cantata. She wants to have a cup of tea and spend a few hours working her way further into the Axe's grid, but work comes before play, and figuring out how to handle Flute's instructions will be a fuck of a lot of work.

Once everyone's safely on the Cantata and the lock has closed behind them, she starts issuing orders. "Grid, please ask Sulen to meet me in my office in twenty minutes, and inform everyone there will be a team meeting in the common room in one hour. Reshad, I'll want you in the meeting with Sulen."

She pulls her memory stick out of her pocket and gives it to Alaric. "Find Aymad, stick this in the minigrid--not in the main one--and see what you can find out about the watchers in Flute's system in the next hour."

Then she turns to Seyli. "I know you want to yell. Go ahead and do it. You've got twenty minutes." [These are heptarchate minutes, so it's more like ten minutes in our calendar.]

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Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[kese_seyli]

Seyli breathes in and then out, thinking about what is even reasonable to ask. They run through the options and finally settle on something that feels like they can ask for: "Don't send me with the flower girl, if you can help it. I don't have time to teach and babysit at the same time. Or if she does come, you assign someone else to mind her that isn't me."

Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[zuhrovet]

"Fuck, that would be an operational security nightmare. You're safe from dealing with Fyedlet on the way out, and Alaric, too, for that matter. You'll have a tech--probably Aymad. I might also send Gerae, because the man remembers every word he hears, if I can figure out who's fit to babysit him."

Sasha turns her teacup in her hands. She wants more jam. Possibly she should find calories that aren't jam. "The team meeting is going to be a mess, because I need data, and we're all from different times, so I have to ask everyone. I need you to bear in mind two things. First, our fundamental responsibility is to keep the moth alive and report back to Ashari. Second, our resources are fucking strange. If you need something in order to get a job done, ask for it; you can't assume a tool doesn't exist just because it didn't exist in your time. Got it?"

Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[kese_seyli]

Well, that's good. Seyli relaxes for a second and then remembers just what they're going into and tenses up once more. "I'll do so, sir. Sasha," they correct in an attempt to at least look like they're trying with Sasha. She hasn't done anything and this is a weird situation all around. "I'll let you or whoever I need to on the team know what I need when I need it. I trust I'm not going to sound like a moron when I describe a tool that I'm not sure is real but would help?"

Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[zuhrovet]

Sasha makes a noise that's halfway between "huh" and a genuine laugh. "If you can think of something that Alaric hasn't heard of and doesn't offer to invent, I'll scare you up a bonus payment. Did he tell you, he doesn't have a heart?"

Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[kese_seyli]

"We've not really talked." Honestly, they've kept themselves busy getting the range cleaned and keeping to themselves.

"Do you need anything else from me, sir?" Seyli asks with a polite smile, eager for this one-on-one to be over.

Re: welcome back - paging Seyli

[zuhrovet]

"No. See you in 85 minutes."

Seyli can spend those minutes not in a meeting. Sasha envies them.