Mia Bonnello stood on her villa's balcony looking over the cast swathes of orange that made this countryside so vibrant. She was however not admiring the vista spread before her, but instead cogitating over the meeting she'd had moments ago. The meeting ahd been impromptu but then it always was when the servants of the C'Tan came calling. Never ones to go through standard channelss this one had stepped out from the shadows in her study to stand before her, bowing deeply he had expressed his regrets at disturbing but informed her that were the matter not of the utmost emergency then such a thing would never have been contemplated. It was easy to forget the mindless barbarism these "Phantoms" were capable of. Never anything but polite and ingratiating, almost as if they were servants of a lesser alliance, not the minions of a race as supposedly powerful as the great spirits themselves.
"We bring you grave news, my lady. Grave news indeed." He had said to her. That was not a sentence she had enjoyed, for the C'Tan to consider it grave news menat there was serious trouble on it's way.
"Go on"
"We have picked up reports of the destruction of Cadiz base and our own investigations have led us to believe, no led us to the fact, that something ancient and terrible is in Sirius. Older even than the C'tan or the Daam K'vash, much older. These beings have no love for sentient life, they seek only the destruction of every higher lifeform. They must be stopped."
"They have not yet attacked Outcast holdings, what makes you think they will? Why should we not press the Corsairs whilst they are weakened by the loss of their forward base near Bretonian space?"
"My lady do not think our treatment of you is so cordial becasue we fear you, we are not your messengers bringing you news of some petty squable between the alliance you have built up. These beings will attack you and if you go chasing after the Corsairs they will crush and extinguish every trace of your ever being here. You have been warned."
The Phantom dissapeared back into the shadows and left Mia alone to ponder her next actions.
