They say ‘if you want something done right, then do it yourself’ — which, believe me, I would love to not be in the negotiation room. I am not a negotiator; that is Ksana, and she’s asking us to do the hard work of reading people for her. I’m a bounty hunter and an investigator, and I do my best work when no one else knows I’m there.

Stanislaw, for all his ability to be stealthy and melt from shadows or a crowd, does not seem to have as keen an eye for evidence gathering as I would have hoped. Between the Dawnbringer boat at Fort Pointer, and now with Sharpe’s and Nico’s rooms, he brings me back big picture details but nothing that I can turn into a solid lead.

We don’t have the time for me to slip away from the table now that I’ve made headway on both Sharpe and Janek. As willing as Viidra was to cause a distraction, or Stanislaw to put the toughs to the knife, we have committed our focus to the negotiations.

Sleight of hand tricks only work when their attention is elsewhere.
- From the investigation notes of Elżbieta

Cast:
Bitmap as Ksana the Spear
Cory as Apricus the Luminary
Jade as Viidra Matei
Mab as Elżbieta Wrona
Zachary as The Game Master

Produced by: Mab
Theme song: "Stray Not, And Be Safe" by Zachary Frederickson.
Sound effects: zapsplat, Yellowstone National Park Sound Library, and Freesound user eminyildirim

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