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. ]

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[allforthecause]

[ Cassian had been waiting and watching from a point a little closer than he had left Kahl, for exactly this purpose. After the three of them passed where he was hidden, he slipped out of the shadows behind them and caught up quickly. ]

And so you meet him.

Keep walking.

[kahl_175]

[Kahl glances back to look, giving Cassian a smile made lopsided by all the scars on his face. He hadn't seen his brother there. Cassian's good at sneaking.]

You talk. Kahl keep watch. [He turns back to the path ahead of them, following a route that will keep them off the main streets.]

[rehandle]

[ ... Huh. He doesn't know all of their number well, but he's pretty sure he recognises this guy from more than just their time in Alem.

With Kahl taking charge of their route, Stephen continues an easy follow, for now not sparing their party's new addition another glance as they continue to wind their way through the Crossing. Though he casts a look at Wrathion for his reaction.

'Unlikely' indeed. All that pretence for... what? There's only one reason he can think of. ]

You carried a message?

[ Like Wanda had. Another of Deimar's missives. ]

[blackscales]

[ Intriguing. Wrathion is quite certain he's seen this man before, in their little entourage. He recognises his voice, he's sure, from the communication pendants. The dragon lofts an eyebrow, glancing sideways at Strange, but says nothing for now.

Quite the build up, and now he's wondering how much the deception will be worth it. He simply nods in understanding, waits curiously for Cassian to answer. Presumably he did -- the question is what exactly it said. ]