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Vignettes / Re: Rowe's Last Stand
« on: March 16, 2024, 10:28:12 PM »
Location: Admiral Rowe's Office
Time: 7:04 AST
"Well, it seems as if she's lost none of her touch from her Anauša days, he was one of SIS's finest," Rowe said as he briefed Stanley and the two reviewed the footage from the body cam of the agent, the mists of blood which filled the screen at time nearly caused Stanley to deposit his breakfast upon Rowe's desk. "Bloody goddesses man," Stanley said as he stood and shook his head, "the only thing you've accomplished is making my head hang even lower when I pass her in the Residential Wing, and now she'll undoubtedly be on an even higher state of alert than she was before. By every measure, your involvement has been a failure." Rowe shrugged, "you were the one who green-lit me trying to take out one of Beatrice's most potent weapons, the harm which befell that agent is on your hands, Lucius. I merely facilitated an avenue to the desires you relayed to me, after all."
"And, she certainly doesn't waste time," Rowe continued as he handed Lucius his tablet with a video playing from it. "She's practically taunting you here, less than twelve hours later and she's performing in Ashinxao?" "I've changed my mind," Rowe would say in response, "it can't be done your way, she's on one shoulder Beatrice's protecting graces and on the other, the graces of the fox, if you want to destroy her it has to be by a third means," Lucius left that last point hanging. "Do go on," Rowe would eventually add, to which Lucius smirked, "her talks with Kyle Barren, of course. If that should leak, that the personal assassin of the Empress of Rokkenjima met personally with Kyle and didn't kill him...."
"You devious bastard," Rowe smiled, "now you get it, finally. When you can't assassinate a body, you assassinate the person attached to it. I'll see what strings I have left at the RBC to pull, even better if I can connect her stage persona to her other profession. If this works," he was interuppted by Lucius, "it will work, the Ironsides cannot abide anyone who sheds an ounce of kindness to that lot." "Very well," Rowe said, "give it a few hours and we'll see what happens after the leak."
Time: 7:04 AST
"Well, it seems as if she's lost none of her touch from her Anauša days, he was one of SIS's finest," Rowe said as he briefed Stanley and the two reviewed the footage from the body cam of the agent, the mists of blood which filled the screen at time nearly caused Stanley to deposit his breakfast upon Rowe's desk. "Bloody goddesses man," Stanley said as he stood and shook his head, "the only thing you've accomplished is making my head hang even lower when I pass her in the Residential Wing, and now she'll undoubtedly be on an even higher state of alert than she was before. By every measure, your involvement has been a failure." Rowe shrugged, "you were the one who green-lit me trying to take out one of Beatrice's most potent weapons, the harm which befell that agent is on your hands, Lucius. I merely facilitated an avenue to the desires you relayed to me, after all."
"And, she certainly doesn't waste time," Rowe continued as he handed Lucius his tablet with a video playing from it. "She's practically taunting you here, less than twelve hours later and she's performing in Ashinxao?" "I've changed my mind," Rowe would say in response, "it can't be done your way, she's on one shoulder Beatrice's protecting graces and on the other, the graces of the fox, if you want to destroy her it has to be by a third means," Lucius left that last point hanging. "Do go on," Rowe would eventually add, to which Lucius smirked, "her talks with Kyle Barren, of course. If that should leak, that the personal assassin of the Empress of Rokkenjima met personally with Kyle and didn't kill him...."
"You devious bastard," Rowe smiled, "now you get it, finally. When you can't assassinate a body, you assassinate the person attached to it. I'll see what strings I have left at the RBC to pull, even better if I can connect her stage persona to her other profession. If this works," he was interuppted by Lucius, "it will work, the Ironsides cannot abide anyone who sheds an ounce of kindness to that lot." "Very well," Rowe said, "give it a few hours and we'll see what happens after the leak."