Scenes On A Wedding Day 5

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote this in response to aldersprig's prompt "The night after the wedding."  It follows on from Scenes On A Wedding Day 4.

“So, where are we going?”  Archduke Dionysus was holding hands with his wife in the back of the official car while the chief bridesmaid, the senior groomsman and an interpreter sat opposite them.  There were a driver and a security man

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[tuftears]

Heeheehee. I wonder if he thinks she's guessing or if she missed a gun or two somewhere.

[rix_scaedu]

I think she's picked them.

He is, afterall, a special forces soldier spending his day next to two unarmed, Imperial and Royal Archdukes. I suspect Terrencian security has tapped him and the other groomsmen for the day... :) And three seems a reasonable number; his and his holdout weapon and one for Franz.

[tuftears]

What, no emergency boot spring-loaded spike launcher? :) Could be just the province of bad spy movies.

[kelkyag]

Maybe he's got the spike launcher and rappelling kit at the back of his neck instead of in his boot? :)

[kelkyag]

I like And. And the translator.

Is the senior groomsman the earlier mentioned Berthold, or one of Franz's other squad mates?

And now I wonder just how enthusiastically the intelligence service recruited from that orphanage ...

[rix_scaedu]

One of the other squad mates.

I don't think And is in intelligence but I think she grew up in a tough neighbourhood and isn't a shrinking violet.

[kelkyag]

But she speaks solid Russkiy with a distinct regional & class accent? I'd assumed that meant undercover work at some point.

[rix_scaedu]

Creaky but idiomatic Russkiy that sounds like it comes from the area just over their border. A combination of where her pronunciation defaults to from her own language and what she was taught in school.

Maybe she works for a company that does business over the border? This is just a few years after their equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall.