We will teach them to threaten us - we will show them what it means to know the halls of power. They are outside, looking in. We are inside, looking down at all we command.

( 'No one is /talking/ about protecting the Brotherhood.' (Emma, Adel, Bahir, Percy, Sal) )

Backdated to Sunday Night.

Decades of research into weapons like this, millions of dollars invested, and it's likely some old man who mixed up his medications and had a fit of pique. Makes a man worry about the state of his business.

It makes a man worry about the future of his business, too - backlash is an ugly thing.

( 'That quirk of genetics can betray you, Sebastian. It can betray us all.' (Emma, Percy, Adel, Bahir) )

Clean. Simple. Solved.

If White just let me handle all of the Club's affairs, imagine how smooth things would be?

( 'Amazing what a little misfiled paperwork leads to.' (Emma, Adel, Bahir) )

It took all the will I have to stay my hand - but if she is in danger and he is merely his usual self, his help may be required. If, instead, he is complicit in this treachery my arm is long and my vengeance terrible. Time will tell.

( 'Emma's fine. Ish.' (Adel) )

Perhaps he's a straw man; perhaps he's not. Regardless, he's a target, and he gives us a reason to rally around the flag.

/My/ flag. All of them, even her, marched to my beat. My beat, my flag, my Circle - my Queen, my pawns. Mine.

( 'We need to bring him down.' (Emma, Adel, Bahir, Percy) )

If she dies, I'm going to kill every person named Melcross in America. I'm going to strangle Percy, the girl's firefighter - anyone and everyone who loved that bitch. Whatever I do to Emma, however I treat her - however she treats me - she is still my creation. She's mine. Shooting her ( Read more... )

Good, that's done. I hope the photos turn out well. Zoom lenses can be so finicky.

( 'All yours.' [Adel, Dorian, NPC goons (spoofed)] )

Good spies. (Eavesdroppers. However they'd like to think of themselves, precious pawns.) They didn't tell me anything I didn't already suspect, but to have the report all the same - concrete data, as much as telepathic and mundane sneaking can be ( Read more... )

That's done: both al-Razi hounds loosed to the chase. I hope that it'll provide decent coverage, along with my more usual spies and contacts, but really, I just hope it will produce something. I don't like the poll numbers. I don't like the feeling that the bill is sliding out of control - or the future is, down a slippery slope that the Inner ( Read more... )

I'd like a pet telepath of my very own. If Emma doesn't beat me to it - and isn't her own gift enough? Greedy girl.

( 'We've got years and years ahead of us yet, but no particular urge to be bad guys.' [Bahir, Adel] )