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. I can t see why that wouldn t work. Yeah. Then let s do it, said Vlad.I finished bandaging him, and he put his shirt on, then his cloak, then his swordbelt.He petted Buddy, recommended the cottage to him, collected Loiosh, and leftwith a sweeping bow. They re disgusting, said Hwdf rjaanci. Who? Easterners, she said.I said, Ah.I ll tell him you said so, Mother. Oh don t, she said, looking suddenly distressed. It would hurt his feelings. I collected my things and stepped out of the door.Unlike Vlad, I had no reason notto teleport, so I did, arriving at a place I knew where I could change my garb a little,which I did.I arrived outside of City Hall at just about the tenth hour, which waswhen things ought to begin moving there.I took a position across the street, becameinconspicuous, and waited.I d been there for more than an hour when Vlad showed up and went in, and thennothing happened for quite some time, and I was beginning to think I d missedLoftis that he d gotten in early when I saw him on the other side of the street,aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBB r rjust approaching; from Vlad s description, it had to be Loftis.I crossed over andwalked past him, and even that brief a glance was enough to confirm that Vlad wasright this wasn t someone to mess around with casually.He was frowning as hewalked, like he had something on his mind; it wasn t hard to guess what it was.I found an inn that let rooms by the hour and rented one this is a good way to finda place where you won t be disturbed and won t be talked about, even if you don tuse the room for the reasons they expect you to.They had put in a real door, toensure the guests had privacy, and I liked that, too.Instead of a tag, it was Loftis spapers and possessions that I spread out on the bed; then I commenced to studythem.He had not, in fact, been polite enough to be carrying a note that spelled outwhat he d been asked to do, the reasons behind it, and the name of his superiorofficer, but we make do with what we have, and the pouch of an Imperialinvestigator can hardly fail to be revealing.His name was, indeed, Loftis, a Dragonlord of the e Drien line, same as Morrolan;and he was the Viscount of Clovenrocks Wood, which was in a far northeasternprovince, if I could trust a memory that wasn t my own.He had three Signets.Iknew he d have at least one, I was counting on it but three indicated he was,indeed, high up in the counsels of the great and powerful who ran the Empire.Andthe oldest of the Signets which included authorization to make arrests was twohundred years old, which meant he d have to have been in the Imperial Service atleast two hundred and fifty years, which is a long time to only be a lieutenantunless, of course, he was in one of those branches of the service where traditionalranks were meaningless, which would explain the irony Vlad had detected when heand Domm had called each other by their ranks.I knew about four such services, all of them more or less independent.Well, therewas a fifth, but that hadn t existed in some years except for one person andwhoever Loftis was, he wasn t Sethra Lavode.I considered the four services I knewabout, and speculated uncomfortably about the possibility of there being one Ihadn t heard of.One of them was the Imperial Surveillance Corps.They were responsible to thePrime Minister, when there was one, or to the Minister of the Houses when therewasn t.The Minister of the Houses was presently an Issola named Indus, and I dplay cards with her only as long as she never got near the deck.She was tricky, butshe was loyal she d do something like this if she was ordered to, and it might wellfall within her province, but the order would have to come from Zerika.If anyonebut the Empress tried to use Indus.well, anyone who knew enough about her toask would know better than to try [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. I can t see why that wouldn t work. Yeah. Then let s do it, said Vlad.I finished bandaging him, and he put his shirt on, then his cloak, then his swordbelt.He petted Buddy, recommended the cottage to him, collected Loiosh, and leftwith a sweeping bow. They re disgusting, said Hwdf rjaanci. Who? Easterners, she said.I said, Ah.I ll tell him you said so, Mother. Oh don t, she said, looking suddenly distressed. It would hurt his feelings. I collected my things and stepped out of the door.Unlike Vlad, I had no reason notto teleport, so I did, arriving at a place I knew where I could change my garb a little,which I did.I arrived outside of City Hall at just about the tenth hour, which waswhen things ought to begin moving there.I took a position across the street, becameinconspicuous, and waited.I d been there for more than an hour when Vlad showed up and went in, and thennothing happened for quite some time, and I was beginning to think I d missedLoftis that he d gotten in early when I saw him on the other side of the street,aaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBB r rjust approaching; from Vlad s description, it had to be Loftis.I crossed over andwalked past him, and even that brief a glance was enough to confirm that Vlad wasright this wasn t someone to mess around with casually.He was frowning as hewalked, like he had something on his mind; it wasn t hard to guess what it was.I found an inn that let rooms by the hour and rented one this is a good way to finda place where you won t be disturbed and won t be talked about, even if you don tuse the room for the reasons they expect you to.They had put in a real door, toensure the guests had privacy, and I liked that, too.Instead of a tag, it was Loftis spapers and possessions that I spread out on the bed; then I commenced to studythem.He had not, in fact, been polite enough to be carrying a note that spelled outwhat he d been asked to do, the reasons behind it, and the name of his superiorofficer, but we make do with what we have, and the pouch of an Imperialinvestigator can hardly fail to be revealing.His name was, indeed, Loftis, a Dragonlord of the e Drien line, same as Morrolan;and he was the Viscount of Clovenrocks Wood, which was in a far northeasternprovince, if I could trust a memory that wasn t my own.He had three Signets.Iknew he d have at least one, I was counting on it but three indicated he was,indeed, high up in the counsels of the great and powerful who ran the Empire.Andthe oldest of the Signets which included authorization to make arrests was twohundred years old, which meant he d have to have been in the Imperial Service atleast two hundred and fifty years, which is a long time to only be a lieutenantunless, of course, he was in one of those branches of the service where traditionalranks were meaningless, which would explain the irony Vlad had detected when heand Domm had called each other by their ranks.I knew about four such services, all of them more or less independent.Well, therewas a fifth, but that hadn t existed in some years except for one person andwhoever Loftis was, he wasn t Sethra Lavode.I considered the four services I knewabout, and speculated uncomfortably about the possibility of there being one Ihadn t heard of.One of them was the Imperial Surveillance Corps.They were responsible to thePrime Minister, when there was one, or to the Minister of the Houses when therewasn t.The Minister of the Houses was presently an Issola named Indus, and I dplay cards with her only as long as she never got near the deck.She was tricky, butshe was loyal she d do something like this if she was ordered to, and it might wellfall within her province, but the order would have to come from Zerika.If anyonebut the Empress tried to use Indus.well, anyone who knew enough about her toask would know better than to try [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]