Drinks at Dixie's

[DarkTails]

"I'm 43 years old.. To the average person? Probably.. But in this line of work, after having been a career? I'm about the right age. My body is already ruined from it." She would take in a deep, yet seemingly shallow breath and exhale. Still thinking it all over, she wasn't feeling particularly good about herself. She isn't what she used to be when she was younger, as ironic as it sounds in her mind.

"The agents are deep cover operatives. The kind of people you don't know are against you until you're gotten. To the criminal eye, the heat is dying down and the LSF lost the trail just outside Ontario. Time will fish this man out, especially as the smuggler thinks he got away with it. Admittedly we're pretty tied up with Ontario and otherwise can't dedicate the usual resources to finding this guy, but it works in your favor I suppose." She wouldn't explain so easily, which was fair enough as she was withholding the information on what's going on in Ontario proper. Friends they are, but they don't share every secret.

"Rumor has it your man is pretty popular. Three different groups with contracts out to the usual hitmen too. While I'm confident this artifact will lure him out, he may demand a meeting beyond Liberty and that limits my capacity to help you. I have.. assets to use as a cover, however." She would think to her rising star, a former Coalition woman, Dominika Sokolova. With the captured fighter interned from her surrender following her being separated from the gunboat she was escorting, she switched sides. This woman has been cultivated for years and specifically chosen by Nicole to take her position upon retirement. "I can stage things in a way that won't raise many eyebrows, but it requires sniffing this rat from his hole, and it's a deep one."