War Camp, Glacia, Autumn,

[glacial_witch]

Between what Dinah and Momoko had found and the fact that winter was very, very close now, it was time to take serious action. There had been skirmishes up and down Glacia ever since they had fled the capitol, but nothing definitive. Karla still held the north, Hobart the south. And with winter practically breathing down their necks, things were

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[heromaniac]

Momoko gave Dinah an apologetic look before answering her Queen.

"Spreading discontent deep in your territories is a good idea, but like Dinah said at the time, there's no mass communication here. Anything that was stirred up in Kovel would have to travel with the loggers or the people following the herds. Trade is done with the neighboring town. They don't get much traffic otherwise, even off the Winds. They told us that when we were trying to figure out where the villagers had gone."

"So why there? I mean, sure there's a ready-made location for doing the villainy, but random strikes don't make sense if Hobart's trying to break your fandom."

She closed her notebook. "The people we captured didn't belong to the area, Kovel isn't one of our supply locations or military outposts, and some of the visions people were seeing had us," she nodded at the more famous of the group, "featured. So we can figure that's what was trying to happen, but again, why there?"

... she didn't want to give her answer, but, "When I was an officer, this was when we would look for a similar M.O. in other places. Which totally does make sense. That it's not convenience, but that this is happening in lots of places and we just didn't put it together until now."

[glacial_witch]

Well, if Momoko wanted Karla to go paler than even normal, she'd succeeded. Darting a glance over to Jono, she asked, "Do you agree?"

[apocalipped]

Jonothon was frowning as he listened to Momoko breaking down the situation. Frowning a little more as she pieced together that last little fragment, that one piece of the puzzle that they'd bee missing.

"Bloody hell," he murmured, looking toward Karla with a frown prominent on his face. "It makes too much sense. If we're talking about strikes from Black Widows, there's even a decent chance that people aren't aware that they're being attacked."

[glacial_witch]

"Well...fuck," Karla said. Helpfully.

She rubbed the bridge of her nose and contemplated another sip of wine--one that would only stop when her glass was empty.

"If Momoko is right--and it makes too damn much sense for her to be wrong--we're going to have to implement new tactics yesterday." She gave Momoko a solemn, if slightly grateful, nod. "Good work, Momo."