#fenixtj

Mitra moves to Jessica the next day, "Have you a moment?"

"Sure. What's up?"

She leads her on, and then whispers "Jessica, have you hired spies? "

"No!!" A pause. "Oh crap. A redcap?"

"Well, one of them might be a redcap... the pooka worries me and...then there's the unseelie troll.."

"What?!!?"

"Tell me." Grimly.

"Actually, I was going to congratulate you, they're doing good work"

"Yes, but for who?"

"Well, I asked if you had spies, who do you think I think they're serving?" She says "Two Leanhaun infiltrators were exposed."

A groan. "Damn it all to HELL."

"I know, might have been better to feed them false information, but exposure is better than not knowing about them right?"

The Eiluned might not quite git

get it*

"It is." The troll, either.

"Where are they, currently?"

"Tied up, bound and gagged..."

Jessica nods. "What were they doing and what did they want to know?"

"They were infiltrating the Co Op...trying to work propaganda against you, and learn the secrets of the summoning chamber respectively"

"An Unseelie troll and a pooka serving Leanhuan and infiltrating the Co-Op?" Making sure she understands.

"NOOoo... the unseelie troll and pooka are the ones who exposed the Leanhaun"

"That's why I asked if You had spies"

"-Who- was the troll?:

"I don't know. I don't have their names...just third hand reports and Backward glances"

"Chronos? " She reminds

"The actual Leanhaun agents were a boggan and a satyr."

"Wait.... start at the beginning."

The Eiluned says "I apologize. We actually have espionage . You know how long I've dreamed of espionage?" Eiluned are weird.

"Well, no, but..... go on."

"Okay. From the start: While you have no official spynetwork, I try to keep my ear to the ground. I do daily checks and so on. Today, two agents of House Leanhaun, and evidence incriminating them, were found bound and gagged at the Pitt. The Boggan and Satyr I spoke of. I used Chronos to try to learn more about who had delivered them. It turned out to be an unseelie troll... green, brutish looking."

"Am I making sense so far?"

"Yes."

"Good. I only saw back an hour or so before the drop off. I nosed around to see what damage the spies might have done... and then in those areas backward glanced again to see a pooka was the one spying on them. She was pretty good with a rapier and so on... she also blathered and chatted with folks to find out that Leanhaun were spreading bad propoganda about you"

"A pooka..... ok. And the troll?"

"Not together , atl east not in the vision I saw."

"But I did see some questions being asked about troubles and more"

Jessica braces. "Let's hear it."

"Actually, it was mostly 'hey, crazy about this whole situation down here huh?' and 'is this fief worth moving to?' sort of thing... and sometimes compliments on thier work, and so on.."

"Ok...."

"How much of what they did was actually against the Escheat?"

"The spies or the Leanhaun agents?"

"The Leanhuan."

"And where are these freelance espionage agents?"

"Mm some sidhe would say they violated the right of demense...working against the holders of the Pit , and against you. The Nocker was encouraging 'new methods of inspiring mortal help'"

"Ravaging?"

"More likely Rhapsody, Leanhaun do enjoy it. You supercharge a mortal dreamer... and help them find greatness... why they make wonders of art, and often strong dross... for awhile. Then? Burnt out.. husks..worse than ravaging really. "

"I know it." Short. "Do we know where the freelancers are?"

"The spies seemingly on our side? No idea." She says "that's why I came to you"

Jessica takes a seat and sighs, rubbing her horns. "What I -want- to say is 'Nevermind them, let it go....' but I won't do that to you. They are my sister, Siv."

"I thought you only had one sister?" Confusion