un: unlikely friend

[allforthecause]

[ Stealing a second pendant wasn’t easy, exactly, but not was it particularly difficult. As shrewd as merchants were, they were simultaneously arrogant when they thought they were going in for the kill - so using Kahl as a distraction (deliberately looking both well meaning and slow with too much coin weighing him down) made it easy to slip the device away and make his own exit long before the man noticed. He and Kahl met up again in a dank little corner, dark and damp, and crouched down over it as they changed the username and prepared their post.

They needed to get the word out - and quickly - but doing so as themselves would only paint a target on their back. So. Burner device, pretend to be a native from the city, get the word out, then ditch the device as soon as they were done.

Time to go. ]

To our foreign guests:

You’ve been promised to Rakkathu as bodies for his horde. Our King plays your host but has already cut a deal - your lives for ours. Or at least some of them.

A dozen plus a tax - this is what he has been promised.

My conscience won’t abide for it. You’ve done nothing but help where and when we’ve asked, only to get this in return. Don’t let him sacrifice you. Murder won’t buy us freedom, whatever our masters believe.

Please. If you’re anywhere near as strong as I think you are: help free us from him once and for all.

-L

[ ooc: comments with this icon and the un “unlikely friend” are from kahl and cass’s burner phone stolen pendant. Any replies from Kahl or from Cassian’s un “bee” are from their personal pendants. ]

Comments

[stephanivien]

Quite. Even if this message is passed on in good faith, given the nature of the politicking here, I would argue it is not even certain who is brokering the deal to begin with.

Reminds me 'pleasantly' of the bickering of the High Houses back home. Perhaps worse, because at least they could generally agree on how to address that war at large.

[ There is a short delay between messages, as if the device had been set down to engage in a different task, and then resumed. ]

In the end, I am not wholly convinced the veracity of the message matters. The sentiment is almost certainly held by some of those here, and greater caution can't hurt.

[westviews]

Politics aren't really my strength. There's a reason I've been on the towers and not generally interacting with the royals, here.

[But her magic makes her a good envoy, and she's stubborn enough to do it.]

Caution is the best thing to take from this, I guess.