Wandering in Heart Castle (log, ota - poke Jordan?)
Delilah hadn't snuck around much in Heart Castle since Jordan's challenge - at least not "legitimately". She'd come to bring notes from David for Judith, she'd come to see the baby, she'd come to see Justin, and she'd come to enjoy the gardens, but so far hadn't been anywhere she couldn't explain to his satisfaction if he had decided to question
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Funny, how people always thought she was incredibly incompetent. Didn't they know it was all a game? Spying was a game of trying to understand other people better than they understood you. Not a lot of good information to be had, being obvious... except about who noticed and who didn't, who was reporting what to whom, the intricacies of the hierarchy. And of course people's reactions to things were always useful tidbits, even supremely controlled reactions. Her information was just that sort - about people, not incidents. What might happen, not what had. She had others for more specific tidbits, and most of the reason she was David's "star" was because of her web of knowing and unknowing informants.
Jordan she didn't yet understand. She knew of his driving ambition, of course, but the why was more of a mystery, and every little interaction helped her understand him a little better.
Especially if he was irritated and condescending. People were less guarded then. Not that "less" would mean "unguarded" in his case, of course.
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If she thought she was the only one he kept an eye on, she didn't have anything even close to any understanding of him. She was just the most obvious; there were others, of course. David had to have near a hundred spies. And then there was Elisha, whose personal network numbered near fifty by now. Jordan himself was just beginning, but what his were very good at already was noticing the other people who were watching - and the question only was who they were watching for.
"You're quickly wearing out your welcome in Heart Castle," he said after a moment. "And I would suggest you get off the roof and reacquaint yourself with more traditional methods of entry if you want to continue to retain visiting privileges, because 'visiting your boyfriend' will cease to be a valid excuse for someone who flouts the rules and mandates of a Castle in which they are a guest." All said very calmly, of course.
He'd need to inform Ceiro and Athena of this. Wren and Judith, as well, and it might be time to pay a visit to the Queen of Spades. This might be part of Delilah's plan to get the measure of people by irritating them, but it was also a possible problem. The Hearts and Spades were the mostly closely aligned Suits, after all, and Delilah was risking a rift.
It might be a fun little maneuver in her little spy game, but it didn't do much for inter-Suit relations.
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