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[beknight]

Who: bruce wayne (beknight); asha greyjoy (laveers) & pals.
What: bruce makes friends; asha learns to shoot.
When: before & during the event.
Where: around olympia.
Warning(s): violence! more will be added if needed. pm/pp if you want me to set something up!

Comments

[beknight]

[ You can be a lot more defiant from a position of security. His family's wealth protects almost everything — Bruce runs his company with the same ruthlessness the Batman haunts the streets with. ]

I think the equation changes when there's this much power involved.

[ The power that means cryotubes for miles. ]

[personalwar]

[ 76's head snaps toward Ana when she makes that comment. How much has she told Alan about them? She knows his discomfort with revealing much of anything about himself, but it's not something they need to get into now. He can assume that she kept things vague, if she'd said anything at all before now. ]

We're also talking about two different things here. There's the Orbiters and the Empress and her guard.

[ He leans back in his seat and crosses his arms, the closest he can get to unwinding in the current situation. ]

[nanamari]

[ Ana nods - trust me - the gesture so small it may as well be invisible, but she knows Jack can read her as easily as she reads him. She's been vague about her involvement, and hasn't mentioned Jack at all, but now that they're all here they need to know what they're working with. ]

I think we can all agree on the Orbiters, but they're further out of our reach.

[beknight]

[ He glances between them, and takes a sip of the water. ]

So what do we think of the Empress?

[personalwar]

There's a lot of rumors about her. That she used to be the king's lover, but she took over his rule and he ended up dead. The people love her, though, so make of that what you will.

[ There could be a lot of different things going on there. Maybe the king had been a cruel ruler, so the people had been all too glad to accept their new empress. Or maybe they don't speak ill of her because they're scared of the consequences. 76 hasn't been able to get an audience to find out for himself, no surprise there. ]

[nanamari]

A coup seems like the obvious conclusion. I'm curious about who else might have been involved, and to what ends.

[ They don't know enough about the way the nobles move in this particular city to draw any conclusions. ]

[beknight]

We might only find those answers on the other side.

[personalwar]

Wyver, you mean? [ 76 shrugs one shoulder. ] Could be, but we haven't had any reliable access to it so far. [ They've been living in a bit of a bubble. Even getting access to the beach was an event. ]

[beknight]

So that begs the question.

[ He looks from Ana to 76. ]

Are we going to share?

[ Some things need to be explicit. ]

[nanamari]

[ Ana looks at Jack. ] That was my intention.

[personalwar]

[ Share information, Jack assumes. That had been the idea from the start, and he's already made motions in that direction. He didn't have to mention what he knew about the Empress, for instance.

So after a pause, and sharing that glance with Ana, he nods. ]

Works for me.