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| Author: | inkie |
| Summary: | Siamus responds to the news from home. His response is, perhaps, not nuanced. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
Arc: The Bride Will Fall
The spiky penmanship is extra spiky today.
9th March
Avrenne -
We will have answers, mo ghrá, and we will have blood.
Mrs. Green will be found. I had set Lt. Baird on Quinn MacBride’s trail two weeks ago when we believed it was she who would be coming to Pandaria. It is a simple enough matter to redirect the hunt, and you may have no doubt that Baird will find her. I would be obliged if you or Finley could furnish me with a description or likeness of the lady, but Baird can make do without if necessary.
I do believe you are taking all reasonable precautions for yourself and the children, but it would set me at ease if you would go nowhere outside of the house without Annai Curran, in particular.
I will make additional arrangements.
Yours,
Siamus
9th March
Lt. Baird -
Belay. The woman’s name is Brigitte Green, née MacBride. Will provide description as soon as possible. She is to be found at any cost.
Capt. Fallon
9th March
Annai -
I want the finances of the MacBrides. Anything you can find, every piece of business they have conducted in the last three years whether illegitimate or legitimate. If you have dealings of your own with any of their less licit contacts, those are to cease immediately, and you may advise said contacts that the MacBrides are now poison and you regret you cannot touch anything proximate to that family.
Otherwise do nothing but collect the paper trail. Her Grace is more than likely privy to their legitimate dealings, or will make herself thoroughly so, but I want all of their dealings.
We are prepared to burn them to the waterline.
S.F.
9th March 30
Mr. & Mrs. Sunstrike -
I would be profoundly obliged if one or both of you would find a family called MacBride, last known residence in the Swamp of Sorrows, eldest daughter Brigitte married into the Greens. I need someone to keep eyes on them. I do not require utmost discretion. It would be my very great pleasure if they were to know or suspect that the Ebon Blade is watching them from a courteous distance.
Any member of their family is to be kept away from my family.
I will be indebted to you; on this you have my word as a gentleman, because naturally you did not receive this letter.
S. Fallon
9th March
Ralaea,
I need to see you at the harbor at once. I do not have a warlock at present and cannot wait for her to return. You will have to travel. Do so quickly.
Siamus
9th March
Miss Nightvine -
Ralaea requires discreet security. Are you in Pandaria?
Cordially yours,
S. Fallon
P.S. Would be delighted to see you again.
On the afternoon of March 10th, Miss Natalyah Kensington-Whit receives an abundant, peculiar, but butterfly-friendly bouquet of agrimony, delicate white bellflowers, and vibrant, fragrant auriculas.
Delivered with them is a plain balsa-wood box stamped with the Fallon kraken sigil. The box contains a remarkably detailed, life-sized enamel pendant of a queen butterfly.
Also on the afternoon of March 10th, Isla Lenaire receives her own clothbound editions of A Comparative Study of Freshwater Habitats by S. Vallier and The Life of Inland Waters by G. Lightman. Both volumes have been autographed by both of those estimable authors; any confusion they felt in being asked to autograph one another’s works was no doubt relieved by money.
And who knows? Maybe they went out for coffee together afterward.