| We switch scenes and follow Will, who's sharing some information
and baiting a trap..... at the same time......
"......so they came to you first with this news in addition to just
seeing old friends, eh?" Astra 8 sighs in satisfaction, looking at the
map that Will has drawn upon to show the massing of Orcish troops in certain
areas. "I must say that I'm glad that they were able to provide this information!
Indeed, this massing of troops can only mean one thing! It means that if
not stopped, they'll do grave damage to us.....perhaps even to the point
where we can no longer resist them. But if we strike in the next day or
so at these points....."
Astra 8 points a stick at selected spots on the map, drawing nods of
approval and such from those assembled in this magically silenced room.
".....if we strike there.....the war will turn in our favor.....at last,"
the General of Generals finishes, wondering if the Orcs will yet again
be able to reverse her stragety to where she's defending instead of advancing
and attacking......
"I assume that Anina will be able to take her soldiers through in a
few days and do some proper.....housecleaning?" Queen Astra says with a
small smile, relishing the idea of ending this fracas once and for all.
"Though it will be behind enemy lines and such? This lightning attack?
A small group hitting in select points to bring this large enemy down to
it's knees?"
"Indeed..... the orcs apparently was relying upon secrecy because the
supply wagons for this move aren't even guarded with many troops......"
Will agrees, gauging the people around him secretly for a reaction. Even
though some of them are the dearest thing to him, he knows quiet well that
even the closest of loves can be enscrolled by magic to become the most
damaging of spies and not even know it (for he'd seen it happen on several
occasions). Nothing overt came up. "So, unless they are betrayed and intercepted
we will turn the tides to our favor to a GREAT extent."
Will nods along with the others, for his own reasons. THIS information
the leak must report.....else his (or her) masters will be most displeases
(to the point of needing to "liquidate" their source of displeasure). That
or with hold whatever reward they'd offer the traitor...... Something like
that.....
The meeting breaks and people go off, sworn to secrecy. Astra 8 has
much to co-ordinate with her troops by radio (through several of her Generals
in the field like Anina and such). Queen Astra hurriedly rushes off as
decorously possible to see Malin about her weekly "check up." Willian La
Post makes a quick prayer that if something will happen to show the source
of the leaks.....it will happen soon (the wait is always nerve wracking
to him.....even if he didn't let it show). Various golems and human agents
lurk about in the field and in the Castle to await signs of possible security
leaks......ready to act accordingly. Will was going to pay a visit to the
demifox mage, Sigin Vulpine to see his kits and mate....and catch up on
old times (AND find out what a certain "friend" had to say).
See, there is this one rather special "friend" of Sigin Vulpine that
the demifox came across while magically examining an Enemy corpse down
in the Manimal nation so long ago.
Then there was a ghostly spy who used to call himself Seven (re: 1341and
1343) is following the only person who'd be otherwise a bit.....ackward
to be followed and spied upon. However, this Seven is a most special ghost......
Seven (now calling himself Jim).....having been alone for so long had
come out of his catatonic state (induced from the shock of his version
of his species extinction and from not having anyone to speak to). He'd
nearly screamed in delight that somebody....ANYBODY......would even acknowledge
his existence. Gone was his arrogance......his pride. Gone was any desire
for vengeance against the Military.....against Terrans. Gone was it all
this, for the Lizard had gone around the bend and no longer even thought
of himself a reptilian being of the Race. Rather, he saw himself (due to
delusion) as having always been human and only his form had been changed
to that of this ugly race under a dire curse.....a curse so strong that
it went over and had warped his very ghostly image into that of the reptilian
form his corpse wore. Eager to please and "help his fellow human beings....."
the Lizard ghost eagerly followed other people into areas that ordinary
ghosts couldn't follow and watched and reported back what he saw and heard.
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 Just Malin's
luck that "Jim" was watching him as he "examined" Astra......
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