Thin Crystal Line: Spoils
"Miss Haines. Frederick is here to see you." Tarkovsky informed the delphox.
"Oh! Send him in." The furfrou opened the door and Freddy entered the room. "Hello Freddy." Haines said with a smile. "How was the war?" She knew the war was rough and hard for the company, but she figured she would ask, just to grind his gears. Freddy just squinted, annoyed at her joke.
"Crap. Honestly. Taoth was a colossal bitch, the soldiers were just about as dysfunctional as the Breakfast club. Not only that, there was this annoying taur who had the gall to mock my company and to wish us death." Freddy clenched his fist. "Oh, believe me. If you need him dead. I’ll be your man."
Haines was stunned at the toxicroak’s display. “Calm yourself.” Freddy sighed. “Sorry.”Haines lit the cigar that was lying on her desk. “No harm saying that here. Now. What can you tell me about the army? I know of the queen, but none of her top brass.”
"There is Gilda the gabite, she is the ambassador so to speak. Nolan, the noivern that is the head of the spy force for the army. Brutus the deino, the head of intelligence, nice guy over all. Alexander the fraxure, the second in command of the army, didn’t see him much, but I heard his name brought up a few times. There is one more person of importance, but…I have don’t have enough info on it."
Haines gave him a stare. “Oh? Do tell.”
Freddy cleared his throat. “You see. There is apparently someone in the army name Iryna. I don’t know what her exact role in the army is, but she apparently built someone a prosthetic arm.” Haines let the cigar drop from her mouth. “What?”
"Yeah. Some haxorus lost her arm to an illusion and apparently this mon built a functioning arm." Haines could not believe what she was hearing. This group had access to this type of technology? What were their potential? What else did they have? "What were their other technology did they have at their disposal?"
"Nothing else special. Just bandages and other basic necessities." Freddy scratched the back of his head. "I have to admit though. I’m still sort of concerned for Jay. I know we sold her some rations as a neutral party initially, but still… I’m curious what happened to her."
"Well it’s no use worry about the dead now. Is there? It’s either Jay or Taoth. Both seemed too stubborn to come to an agreement, which is all fine and good. But this Iryna. I need more information on her. Unfortunately, the commander sent you and the company home-"
Freddy smiled and shook his head. “Nope. Weather stayed behind because he wanted to see things through, so odds are he could give us more info when he comes back.” Haines gave a smile at that notion. “Well ask him when he returns. Also, here is the money I promised you.” She slid a manila envelope towards Freddy. He opened the envelope and saw there were 5 stacks of 1000 poke bills, all of them totaling up to 10,000,000 poke. “Thank you for giving me the intelligence. Hope this makes up for the time you all put in.
Freddy slipped the envelope into his jacket. “This should. I’ll at least be able to pay the others, provided they don’t know where I got this money.”
