I asked him, Emma. I asked him your question. (I won't tell you this. I won't send you an update. I will keep my thoughts rattling quietly around my skull, and they will be mine for a while, all and only mine.) He didn't give the best answer, but he gave an honest one, I believe that. I have a hold on his loyalties, but I don't hold them all, in ( Read more... )

More training.

Yes. And soon, before she thinks she can get away with anything just because she's become my personal convenience.

( 'Horrible creatures? Men? Where do I even start?' [Zenith] )

Obviously I need to get laid every time before I deal with Emma. Much harder to get a rise out of me - or my temper - that way ( Read more... )

Good lunch break. That . . . poured everything out of me. Cleared my head, loosened my muscles - I can sit at this desk and think about the phone call this morning with more distance. I can figure out what I need to do to mend the fence I leaned on a little too hard, who to call next, what to say, calmly and rationally. . . .

Thank God for sex.

( 'I'm not /naturally/ quiet.' [Zenith] [R for explicit sex] )

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... )

Seizing something, anyway.

Good. Very good.

Even better: the thoughts of what's to come. What could be done now . . .

( 'Been waiting for all my life for a guy who could dance properly' [Zenith] )

Graydon Creed: cheerful politician, potential client, and public Friend of Humanity ( Read more... )

I'll bet he does have a hood in his closet. Him or that brother of his he's mentioned. Rednecks. I come from that stock, myself; I can hardly throw stones here. White sheets? Sure. I just wear mine in public, for profit and the protection of vital secrets, and it's not real ( 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... )

Encrypted email to Emma Frost:Appointment today with someone who was asking after William Stryker and a program of mutant experimentation. Brushed her off and added a veiled threat to keep her mouth shut, at least as far as my involvement in her quest goes. Black Knight met her and can give you a report to supplement mine, but I have to ask: is ( Read more... )