United We Stand

[Byron]

The ride surely had been a bumpy one, considering the proud seniority of the freighter the two Frumentarii agents were using to stay under the radar of the Royal forces. It couldn't turn quite as well as Sophie had hoped, and through the course of their undercover flight, the ship was constanly rattling and tattling, in fact sounding like it could fall apart any second. Of course it wouldn't, that had been assured beforehand, as it carried two very important delegates, as well as delicate information they had with them. She still had some troubles keeping the ship on course though, as she wasn't used to flying one of these models, however if she learnt one thing during the time she had to battle her way on her own, then that the single most important key of survival was adaptability.

Without much attention being drawn on their small vessel, they managed to land on the Council headquarter quite easily. After Sophie had landed the freighter at one of the free-standing areas of the hangar, they climbed out of it, recognizing a few other vessel that were already standing there, vessels of many different cultures, Sophie thought.

The routine checks by the personnel on board the installation of course were a pest as always, but necessary, after all, it concerned a top secret meeting. After those security checks had been finished, the two agents made their way out of the hangar into a long, wide corridor that was lightened by bright lights on the ceiling. Walking besides each other, Sarah quickly turned her head back to the entrance of the hangar again. "Alright. That ... took longer than I expected. Tight security they have here ... but I guess that's a good thing." Previously, Sophie had folded her hands behind her back. "Quite so, yeah", she said. "They don't suddenly wanna have undercover Royal marines on board after all. Would be a fun shooting, but no thanks, not today. I just hope these patrols didn't have us on their scanners back then. Well, at least I didn't see anybody following us, but that doesn't have to mean anything."

Sarah briefly raised one of her eyebrows, hearing about the other agent's concern. "We kept good distance, no. The mission is not compromised. Furthermore, this is safe space", she stressed and then put on a smile: "Alright. Agenda... anything we need to think of except... handing over the surveillance data pack?" She was fidgeting with a PDA to get another look at the meeting's setup. Sophie briefly turned her head around to look at Sarah before focusing the door at the end of the corridor again. "Except of that? Usual stuff I suppose, boss. I'd think about how to greet that Kusarian representative though. Could turn out ugly if we do it the wrong way." A chuckle and another thought later, Sophie continued. "And just hope that meeting will produce fruit. Alsooo..." She stopped for a moment to open the small handbag she had with her, opening the view upon a small box. "We got a present for them of course, nearly forgot about that. Some very fine sensory data from Java. I'm sure they'll like that."

Sarah nodded and grinned when she saw the small data cube. "That promise to be able to leak this data was likely our entrance ticket to this game", she commented when they finally reached the end of the corridor and stoof before the doors. The security would open them and moments later they would be meeting and greeting the delegates.

The two Frumentarii agents had a job to do here, to do what the Guild could not do, to listen to what the alliance would do and to use its own influence to make it happen within the Guild.

"It's a pleasure to be with you all today", both said exactly at the same time, exactly in the same manner.