[There's a restaurant in what was probably once a large house in town, lots of small dining rooms offering good privacy. Ben goes to eat there, Katherine had earlier been instructed to enter by a back way. You're both taken to a private windowless room, the waiter assured you that you could speak privately.] [Start when you like.] (Who got there first?) (Katherine) (Apparently- oh, I did? I'm awesome.) * Ben is being covert, to lose any pursuers. He's being all stealthy. (Can Katherine detect him anyway? Let's find out!) (Dood, what's my roll?) (I roll Stealth first, you try to beat me, I think.) (Stealth vs. awareness. No bonuses) [Katherine knows someone's coming, she has a definite feeling that someone is Ben.] * Ben walks up. The average person would probably not notice he was there, but for someone with supersenses, he's not even posing a challenge. 'This seat taken?' * Katherine is toying with her fork. It's so pretty. There's a long pause before she says, "Not the last time I checked." 'You never know. In our line of work, you could have an invisible companion.' (I swear I thought of that line and had typed half of it before I remembered the logs I read yesterday.) (Ha!) * Katherine smiles faintly. "I could, but I don't think my invisible friend is with us at the moment." She looks towards Ben now. "How did it go?" * Ben slumps into the chair and pulls out a cigarette. He takes out a match and lights it, then proceeds to suck on it like his life depended on it. * Katherine watches. "That well, huh." 'Well, if you're thinking of sending the kid to a nice little magic academy, I've found a pretty ****ing safety oriented one.' Sadly, my experiences don't quite support that. * Ben takes out a small device, about the size of a bug. It's a standard issue S.A.B. omnidirectional holographic recording device. (I figure that's got to be what makes the logs.) 'Not a safe experience, sneaking in? Did you think it would be? 'Not particularly.' * Katherine produces a similar bug and places it in front of Ben. 'You ever want to crush these things, or is that just me? Just askin'.' All the time. * Ben smiles slightly. 'Glad I'm not alone.' * Katherine lets out a faint sigh, then takes Ben's and turns it over in her hand, activating it. * Ben does likewise. * Ben smiles slightly at one point, but is otherwise grim. * Katherine watches more or less neutrally, though she does fight back a snicker at one point. 'No offense, but I hope Red and Ari are having better luck than either of us.' 'You called Mai to get her to pull copies of those three books Maris had lying around?' * Katherine blinks a few times, digesting what she just heard/saw, and rubs at her eyes. "No, I haven't yet." 'Is it just me, or did this seem to be the big day for everyone and his brother to show up looking for stolen items?' Didn't you see? There's a blinking sign over the school saying 'Lost and Found'. * Ben snickers. * Katherine sighs again, moving her braid from her shoulder. "That definitely could have gone better." (See, this is why I think Greg's way of doing stuff is, no offense Greg, counterproductive. If we just swap logs, what's left to talk about? It kills conversation.) 'Well, only insofar as we could have figured out who was doing it, why, and how, but didn't,' Ben says drily. 'Though I do think you've shed light on one question, how the guards were neutralized. Assuming Isaac is actually one of the culprits as the videotape suggests, he probably charmed the guards.' Ben's tone indicates he's not trying to reveal something hidden, just summarizing what everyone already knows. Most likely. Memory charms and the like. 'A handy thing, memory wiping, though not without its limitations.' Yes. They had to have covered said limitations somehow... * Katherine shakes her head. She's still clearly disappointed, though it's muted and rather resigned. "Also, I don't think Hurst is involved, for what that's worth." * Ben nods. * Katherine taps her finger against the table. "Hopefully, Red and Ari fared better than either of us." (You know what, screw it. We may have read the logs IC, but here, this seems a better way to run the session...) (Hmm?) 'Well, how about we go over what we each went through and what our thoughts on it are.' 'It'll give us something to do until they here. * Katherine tilts her head. "I suppose. Would you like to go first, then?" * Ben shrugs. 'Up to you, Andrews.' * Katherine grins. "You first." * Ben smiles slightly. 'Fair enough.' 'Feel free to interrupt with any comments or questions.' * Katherine nods. 'My tour started by meeting up with Jaida Kinsley in town. We were joined by a woman using the name Emily Worthing, who claimed also to be a parent of a prospective student.' Claimed being the key word there. 'Indeed. 'Kinsley claimed that there was no general discliplinary problems on campus beyond those typical of any boarding school.' (Yeah, but have you ever seen movies or read books about boarding schools. Man... ^_~) 'She also claimed that fighting and bullying were not overly common, and specifically denied that magic was used to bully magically unadept children.' * Katherine frowns slightly. "That would, at the very least, be a lie designed to appease worried parents." * Katherine idly turns the fork some more. 'I suspect as much, frankly. I saw nothing concrete to establish otherwise, though. A few hints, but nothing solid. Though the degree of the lie is unclear. I'm not that interested in the odd magical wedgie going on, when it comes down to it.’ * Katherine nods. "True enough." 'I also learned a bit about the Houses, or at least the official stories. Lions push at boundaries, Drakes are too clever for their own good, and Unicorns are good little bookworms.' * Katherine snorts a little at that last one, but she nods. * Ben waits for a reply for a second before continuing. 'And finally, I learned that one of their best and brightest, Maris,' Ben pauses for a second to look at Katherine's reaction to the name, 'had no magical abilities when she arrived.' 'Which is interesting indeed, for a girl reading a book dedicated to the question of whether it's possible for someone without magic to develop abilities. One might think the question would be settled in her mind, wouldn't one?' * Katherine frowns slightly. "One would, yes." 'After that, we headed for the school.' * Katherine nods. 'Worthing and I were passed off to Alvar, the headmaster.' 'And here things got slightly more interesting. He let me try out one of those vaunted wands. So it's true, then? Someone with no previous magical training can practice magic with one. 'I floated my cellphone through the air. Or, rather, I appeared to. It would have been possible for Alvar or another party to simulate the effect by moving the cellphone instead of me.' * Katherine nods. 'I also learned that electronics are somewhat unreliable on campus.' Technology and magic don't mix well, yes. 'Apparently, the computers on campus are unreliable compared to ordinary computers. Emily claimed that there were ways to prevent such problems, and Alvar claimed the magical concentration was higher on campus and couldn't be overcome.' 'Why do you think I floated my cellphone?' Ben smiles slightly. 'It seems to be working fine now, though.' 'I think Alvar was not giving all the details about this alleged higher levels of ambient magic.' 'I can't be sure of what he might have been hiding yet, but I think it relates to the wands somehow. I could be wrong, though. I don't have any evidence of a connection yet. But they are being powered by transferring magical power between wands, and that must fill the atmosphere with magical power.' * Ben pauses to see Katherine's thoughts on this. (I'm getting Katherine's thoughts, too!) * Katherine snickers. "Well, unless you try to enchant it, effects wouldn't be permanent." She shakes her head. "Emily's right, though. It can usually be managed... unless the concentration's stronger than the wizard involved." 'Then the concentration is stronger than the faculty of the Preparatory School of Magic.' Ben takes a long drag on his cigarette. 'Strikes me that's pretty ****ing concentrated.' I'll say. That *is* curious. While we're at it, we may as well have Mai run a background check as to past history on the grounds that school was build on. 'Alvar's line was that the wands have their own inherent magic, but that they allow the students who use them to enhance and develop their innate powers, rather than relying on the wands forever.' 'Good idea.' 'I suspect the wands aren't nearly that nice, though.' Go on. 'The wands transfer power. They drain powerful students to supply power to the ones without.' 'Alvar wasn't letting that detail slip, but later on another teacher was pretty casual about it, so I'm not sure how secret that fact really is, or how secret it's *supposed* to be. ' 'The wands also only work on the school grounds. Get them too far from their power sources with legs, and they fizzle out.' 'Also, I strongly suspect that Mallory in particular is being tapped for enough magical juice to light up Manhattan.' * Ben pauses again. (Because this isn't meant to be solitaire RPing. :P) * Katherine taps her finger on the table. "That may be what Maris is worried about: losing her wand and therefore losing her source. Perhaps she wants to use magic outside of the school." * Katherine frowns slightly. 'My thoughts exactly,' Ben says. (The Socratic method works! :) ) Also, if Mallory is providing most of the power to the other students, wouldn't the faculty use extra measures to protect him? 'Indeed.' 'Also, it's quite lucky for them that the poor lad ended up in their charge. He's an orphan, you know. I'm told it's a tragic story.' 'His loss is the Prep School's gain, though.' Terrible, though at this point I doubt they were directly involved in him ending as an orphan. 'I rule nothing out.' * Katherine snickers. "I said I doubt it, not that it's not possible." 'He's apparently allowed to have adventures offcampus, whatever that means.' (Hmm.. what's that in reference to?) 'Draining his power allegedly makes him easier for the faculty to manage. It must be difficult giving a kid detention when they can obliterate you at will.' * Katherine rolls her eyes. "Maybe he enjoys spending long walks with a unicorn. Is he monitored when he wanders?" 'Wait,' Ben pauses. 'They said he sneaks out of his dorm. I can't actually recall confirmation that he got off the grounds.' * Katherine opens her mouth, then pauses a moment. Not much magic is practiced at night, likely. 'They keep him away from girls' dorms and let him roam a bit before catching him...' Ben pauses a beat. 'They monitor him closely, probably at all times.' Yes, but who does it? We don't have names. * Ben shakes his head. 'Of course he can't leave the campus grounds. What was I thinking? If he leaves, the wands on campus might all fail without their battery.' 'We'd have names if these kids didn't remind me of me. Not me at ‘their’ age. Me now. Paranoid tykes.' Tell me about it. (Gah, I'm making so many errors tonight. I'm tired.) 'Alvar said something else interesting. They don't let the kids anywhere near the top secret highly dangerous magical vault.' 'If I only knew where it was, what was in it, or what was protecting it, I might almost feel I'd been the least ****ing bit useful in there.' * Katherine nods. "At least we know there is one." She pauses, thinking. * Ben watches Katherine think, sitting there puffing his cigarette. * Katherine frowns a little. She taps at the table some more, then says, "I think it's possible Mallory could leave the campus without notice due to the wands. The power wouldn't immediately be used." Not if they work the way I believe they do, in any case. 'Which is with a central storage battery in the highly dangerous magical vault, or with defused storage in all wands on campus?' Ben asks. His tone indicates he's genuinely curious which of the two she leans toward. His tone does not seem to reflect that he's making two suggestions. * Katherine nods. "Likely a central battery. Let me try to explain." 'Speak slowly and use short words, please,' Ben says dryly. * Katherine snerks, then continues. "As far as channeling and storing magic goes, artifacts typically do one or the other. Ones that do both are rare, and definitely can't be mass produced at the rate those wands are." 'So defused storage is unlikely.' * Katherine nods. "Correct." 'So, central storage location, which odds are is are mysterious forbidden vault.' (Enter it, slay the dragon, grab the stolen artifacts, and gain XP! But first, our party has to meet in a bar.) * Katherine nods. "Now, if the wands haven't proven themselves to be a danger yet, they likely don't even get consistent results. If a wand tried for a steady drain from an individual, the person would most likely die. So, for consist results, another item to store it in." The wands probably just drain whatever's bled off a student in spikes, send it to the battery, and then retrieve magic from said battery as needed. 'And they can probably be rigged to drain only when the student isn't using power themselves. * Katherine mmms, biting her lip briefly before continuing, "Yes. Also, this would only work in an area with a very high percentage of wizards - or very strong wizards - but given even the faculty's been shown to use them, it's not hard to believe." 'Right.' So, you're right. I think that may be one of those things in this mysterious vault. The source of all their power. It sounds like a bad comic book, really. * Katherine shakes her head. "But this also means that, perhaps with some faculty knowledge, Mallory can leave campus in the middle of the night and no one would be the wiser." 'I met someone once who told me you should always keep your power source in an anonymous safety deposit box, not your vault of doom. But I suppose that's not really an option here.' * Katherine snickers. 'So, Mallory can leave campus briefly without the system collapsing.' * Katherine nods. 'So, what would our battery look like and how would it work?' 'And is it relevant. This wand system long predates the thefts we're here about.' (I don't know. I'll ask the GM if I have half a clue!) 'Unless the system needs propping up with additional artifacts now. Or unless the people stealing the artifacts aren't running the wand scheme, but investigating it or trying to twist it to their own advantage.' * Katherine gets that thoughtful look again, for some time, then takes a breath and says, "All right. There's a number of things it could look like, most of them predictably mystical, but..." The telltale sign would be a circle of power either on or around the device. A diagram to control the flow. 'How complex would creating such a diagram be? Is it just a circle, or a crazy fractal pattern where one wrong line ****s it all up?' * Katherine says, dryly, "Think complex fractal and you're about right." * Ben mutters something inaudible. But his company is Katherine, so what he said was, 'I wish I knew what was on that ****ing computer.' That makes both of us. Do you want to continue, or should I start with what happened on my end? * Ben shrugs. 'Why don't you go for a while, then we can come back to the rest of what I suffered through.' * Katherine nods and doesn't comment on the accuracy of that. She closes her eyes for a moment, then opens them. "I started by exploring the outside of the campus, just to get a feel for locations and the like. Not much was gleaned, though I did overhear a conversation between two girls concerning the purchase of forbidden books." Maris was mentioned as the buyer, though I didn't catch the seller's name, or a visual. * Ben nods. (For the record, even though you're using this format, the voice is caught on the log.) (The way you're going through makes a lot of sense, but you can still have the perks of the record if you want.) (Right.) 'I'm surprised your keen ears didn't pick her out when you reviewed the recording of my tour.' (I don't know. There was no note in your tour. :P) (GM, was she heard in Ben's log?) (Now that Ben mentions it, yeah.) (She was the girl Ben passed leading the troupe of little girls.) * Katherine blinks. "Actually, now that you mention it, you did pass her by at some point. The Drake girl." (Yup.) 'So, what happened then?' 'You ran into Yvonne's male twin?' * Katherine snickers. "Yes, well... eavesdropped on a class or two, and then officially met him." * Ben nods. I decided to tag along with him thanks to scrying spells. If anyone chose to check an area I was in, all they'd see is demon. 'And a bird,' Ben says deadpan. * Katherine shrugs easily. "I can't stay a bird all the time. They're missing things like opposable thumbs." 'I imagine. Still, nice party trick, Andrews.' * Katherine smirks. "Thanks. I learned it just so I could amuse my friends on their birthdays." In any case, I gleaned that Maris was in the Unicorn house, and she is, at least, connected to illegal dealings from a consumer standpoint. After failing to convince the painting we belonged there, I broke us into her room. And, as you know, found a number of books she shouldn't have. 'Right.' 'Knowledge. You figured that one out, it looked like in the recording.' * Katherine nods. "Likely a moot point now, but it's good to know." The centaur... Dennis? Dennis came along, so the demon grabbed Maris' chest, and we went to the woods where... ah. * Katherine frowns. * Ben snickers at the irony in Katherine's wording. * Katherine actually doesn't look comfortable rehashing this part. "We took care of the magical locks, but Maris is far too paranoid for her own good, and you know what happened." 'Classic suppression circuit.' I should have seen it coming. * Ben pauses, then nods. 'Frankly, yes.' 'Though to be fair, she was just a kid. They usually aren't going to be that smart about locking mechanisms.' * Katherine brushes some loose hair from her face. "Yes." Pause. "But all she had were receipts, a magic lantern of some sort, and that plush unicorn. Nothing we were looking for." (Very good, Arwen. Got the spelling right.) (Was the lantern green? Did you find any rings?) 'What were the receipts for?' (I was deliberately watching for it. ;P A year or two of that, and maybe I'll always get it right.) (Nope, yellow. Maris is secretly an agent of Sinestro) Yes, well... How did you put it? They're paranoid tykes. * Ben snickers. Had a run in with the unicorn, and the demon proved to be useful for something other than wisecracks and magic locks, as he knew which house Maddox was in, and he was a definite lead. 'I'm not sure it proved exactly useful where opening locks was considered, considering the result.' True. 'And then...?' * Ben neglects to insert any reference to Frei suggesting Katherine dress up in red leather and pretend to be a succubus. (Which is a pity, because I could think of a fair number of ways to make fun of that.) (But his sense of humour doesn't work that way, alas.) (Hey, at least it's almost plausible for me. ;P) (Yeah. I mean, as an SAB woman, Katherine's fighting fate by resisting leather.) ( Then we could swap outfits!) (*dies*) (Anyway...) (Waiting on Greg, yaknow?) (Sorry!) * Katherine neglects to mention that, too. "His books indicated what we now know: he's gifted in charms but not much else. I did get a look in his trunk, which had letters from his parents. Seems he was unsurprisingly close-lipped by the end." Maris was mentioned in helping with his homework, as were flying lessons from a Lion boy. Mallory, I'd guess. 'Mallory was definitely giving him lessons, though it seems that half the school was too.' 'Well, we've already mentioned what the charms probably signify.' * Katherine nods. "As a method, yes. He didn't fly out of their notice." 'And then? After that, Hurst decided to show up. Rather than make him chase me across campus, I went in when called and had a truth spell cast on me. 'I really ****ing hate truth spells.' * Katherine nods. "Sadly, I had to tell the truth." She pauses. "Mostly the truth, anyway. I wanted to give a story that would line up with what I told the demon and also with what Hurst may have known." 'Any reason you focused on the computer in your story to them?' 'And I found myself in a similar spot with Emily Worthing.' I'd like to hear about that after I finish. I focused on the computer because it gave me a reason to be checking on Maddox, and that's the one we had an actual connection to, as far as suspects go. 'Anything else, or that it? * Katherine shakes her head. "That really is it. With any luck, he should believe I'm a private investigator of some sort and that I won't be returning to the campus." 'What happened to the O.D.M.E.- the demon, I mean?' For what it's worth, I don't think Hurst had any private knowledge of this. He seemed fairly put off that nobody would told him, though. Probably because he's out for money more than anything else. ('Cause I can't use H.S.T., so I made up my own acronym for them!) (Ha. What's it stand for, out of curiosity?) (Other dimensional something entity?) (malicious?) (Good man, Greg, but wrong on that last guess.) (Extraplanar!) (Katherine can make a roll, maybe, to see if she can either figure it out or knows it already.) (No, Greg nailed Entity.) (I'm afraid I'll critfail, at this rate. ;P) (Mystical was the last.) (Ahh, yeah.) He went his own way, though he said he'd check with me later. *pause* There's a threat if I ever heard one. (Katherine travels in something of the same circles as Ben. He doesn't make up his terms, so she may have heard someone else use it.) (I go around in circles!) 'He probably just wanted to have sex with you,' Ben says offhandedly. 'So, back to my story, then?' Like I said, a threat if I ever heard one. Please. 'Alvar took Emily Worthing and me to the computer lab. A teacher there apparently had some mystical ability that let him randomly utter allegedly 'true' things beyond his knowledge.' 'Sadly, that didn't end up doing much good.' * Katherine raises an eyebrow. "Divination, then. Hm." 'He also claimed that there's no such thing as a particularly good bit of cybermantic hardware. They're all pretty much the same, and a novice could enchant their own computer and get as good a result as an expert. It's how you use your enchanted computer that counts. Or so I'm told.' 'That leads me to believe that the stolen computer wasn't taken for its hardware, but its software. Closed system, no modem, no network. You want to get at that hard drive, you need to actually steal it.' * Ben pauses for a reaction. * Katherine folds her arms, leaning on the table. "Yes. Alternately, it could mean it was previously enchanted by someone more skilled and potentially more powerful than anyone on campus." What I was told was that it wouldn't make any difference, no matter who made the computer. 'Whether you believe that or not is another story.' (Lesse, give me an occult roll on that one Ard. +2 since it's specialized.) (How come I can't even make a damn Mind check?) (Did I not give you one? Feel free to make it now) (Katherine keeps getting these rolls to see if she gets clues out of my story and I didn't get a chance with hers.) (Sorry, she mostly asked. Have any questions on hers?) (I'm just paying more attention now cause games over( (I don't know. Did anything in there have anything I could pick up on? The books. Let's ask if I've read the books.) (So, Katherine says...) (Sure. Mind roll. I'll give for all three or separate for each at +4. Your preference) (Katherine has something to say on this topic?) (I'm figuring that out. @_@) A cybermancer can make a computer for another, as a training device of sorts, but if that were the case, it likely would have been stolen or taken before now. So, it's a possibility, but you're right. Most likely, the software is what they're after. 'Define training device.' * Katherine frowns briefly, then tries to expand. "A computer designed and enchanted to make cybermancy easier." 'For a non-magical user?' For anyone, assuming they were willing to try. Like Maris, for instance. 'Like Maris, who perhaps can't use magic at all without her wand...' * Ben nods. * Katherine nods, too. "Also, if the computer was used by a cybermancer and not wiped, there could be potentially magical programs there." 'Right. Programs on it was my thought earlier. Or just raw data. Either way, stored information.' 'By the way, I just remembered something. I think I've heard of the book Maris had on cybermancy. I haven't read it, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it was banned after it proved way to effective a manual for cybermantic hacking. Getting a copy these days would be tough. An original copy, anyway. Scanned versions are probably all over the place.' * Katherine blinks. "Really. Hm." * Ben exhales a long stream of smoke. 'Around then, Emily Worthing and I had a private chat.' * Katherine nods. 'She claimed to be there looking for a stolen item of her own, taken from some embassy. She thought I was there for it, but I revealed that I was after different stolen items. I figured that she already had me pegged and denying it would only lead to her making a fuss. I didn't really tell her anything she didn't already know.' 'It really was open house for stolen property investigators today.' Makes me wonder if they deal with this every day. * Ben snickers. 'Yeah, six investigators that we know of so far today. If they get that every day, they'll be overrun.' * Katherine nods, amused. "I'll say. Any idea why she blew her cover like that?" 'No clue. Maybe she just got sick of hearing about the safety features of the school.' Ben takes a long drag on his cigarette. 'God knows the S.A.B. has agents who'd pull something like that.' True enough. I wonder why she pulled what she did later, then. 'Frankly, she probably just wasn't very good at her job.' 'Or she was lying to me about why she was there.' 'It wasn't even a very effective attack attempt.' 'I think she'll be turned over to S.A.B. custody, so I'll have a chat with her about it later.' Sounds like a plan. 'Alvar turned us over to Rica, another teacher. Isaac's got a crush on her, but I don't think she put him up to the thefts. Of course, if I listened to my gut whenever it told me someone could be trusted, I'd be long dead, so we should keep an eye on her regardless.' 'Rica was a lot more casual about some things. She openly explained that the wands used energy provided by the students, and she demonstrated a sort of force field that the school uses to protect items. I don't know if they'd use the same technique for the *really* secure items, though.' * Katherine nods. Probably not. I don't think anything they're particularly afraid of being taken would just be lying around like that. 'Oh, and after Emily's attack, there was a brief period in which Rica couldn't cast a spell. That could be good to know. You can preempt a magical attack by magically attacking first. Dumb system.' 'That was my interpretation of what I saw, anyway.' * Katherine furrows her brow. "Right." (Let's see, occult on that Katie wizard/witch. If you want a mind roll after anything Katherine comes back with I'll give you that Ben. At a -4 bonus since ou figured out the field down thing.) 'Rica then led me around a bit. We met with Isaac briefly, but I didn't get a chance to talk with him alone or at length.' (Because that would have been so helpful... ) 'Wait a second.' 'Maybe a magical attack disrupts the wands. Wait, no, Rica claimed to be a monster hunter.' Ben smiles slightly. 'If she was telling the truth, she must have her own magical abilities.' (Or she's Gilderoy Lockhart!) (Hehe!) (*I* figure stuff out and Katherine gets a roll? You need to revise your game system, Greg.) It... doesn't entirely make sense. Magic doesn't usually nullify magic, and even if it does, it's usually defensive. Either Emily or Rica had to have done something unusual. 'Rica seemed to be expecting what had happened. She appeared to be waiting for the magic to return.' 'So I assume that it's a function of the school, not what Emily did.' * Katherine nods. "It could be. It looks like bets are off where the school's concerned." 'I talked with Dustin. He seemed a nice kid. Didn't tell me much that wasn't the party line, but he has no love for Mallory.' * Katherine nods again. Nothing much to say there. 'He liked Maris, though.' 'And he had an interesting comment about Mallory's parents' murder. It seems that the killer was caught even though the murder was never solved. I imagine he meant that the methodology involved was never detemined.' * Katherine huhs. "That is strange." I suppose we should have Mai look into that, too, while we're at it. 'I was planning just that.' * Katherine smiles faintly. "One step ahead of me, then." 'No, I should have asked her to look into it when I called her earlier. It only occurred to me when we discussed it earlier.' 'I wanted to check if Yvonne had made herself useful.' Did she? * Ben takes out a new cigarette and lights it off the old one. He throws the old one away. 'Three guesses, Andrews.' * Katherine sighs dramatically. "I suppose it was too much to hope for." 'That sums up my rather pointless day to date.' * Katherine thinks it over. "So, ask Mai to get that information for us. Wait for Red and Ari to show up. And never speak of this to Yvonne." 'That was my plan.' Perfect. We're on the same page. 'Though I doubt the unicorn would have liked her very much.' * Katherine snickers. "Probably not." [End]