Message to Myra

[evillurks]

((Following this.))

The elderly Shadow may seem, at times, to have mellowed. His social graces tend to vanish when it comes to work, however. Myra's PINpoint flashes a message around dawn, the day after their brief chat in the Nexus.

Scout mission successful. Report in as soon as available.

Whatever he has found, apparently he wants to discuss it. Urgently.

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[evillurks.livejournal.com]

"...There's still Farrow..." He leaves that aspect of the conversation there, as he is equally uncertain what to do with Ming, but less willing to express that.
"They're former agents, but I can't be sure if they knew any more than she did about who Khan really was. I suspect not." As he scowls, his gaze fades away from hers, sliding to some other point of focus. "I doubt he would have let anyone live that knew. They'd be too much of a liability." Although he does not voice it, his longering thought is that were he in that position, he would make certain there were no loose ends to expose the trick.

[myra-reldon.livejournal.com]

She nods at his suggestion.

"I'll bring that up next time. Farrow is his connection and the circumstances are definitely...special."

"I agree. If there were any weaknesses, it would have been agents who knew the truth behind the swap." She had never heard word of many other members of 'Khan's' gang, and so now she wonders, if Burbank, Harry, Farrow or the others she knew of had met some ill fate, possibly knowingly at the hands of their former master. She bites her lip gently, trying to will away the thoughts.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

The Shadow makes a very soft noise of annoyance. "He was mine, and I forget that it's not exactly my own resources I'm offering." It is frustrating to be so close to home, and yet out of place.

As The Shadow's most loyal agent, Harry would have been too persistent after his chief's death not to be eliminated. Having had such acts of violence drilled into his brain by his alternate, The Shadow certainly knows. "This still doesn't mean we can be sure of their intentions, but it seems likely they're a force for good. I thought you'd want to know, since it concerns Ming's future..." In a sense, he is reporting to her, which is a unique situation.

[myra-reldon.livejournal.com]

"The Shadow knows that I have Ming in my custody, and he asked to be kept aware of any progress. I can at least ask, and if he refuses, I'll think of something."

Now she nods and smiles, realizing the reversed situation and is genuinely appreciative. He could have simply updated her after the fact, but instead he's informing her before he acts.

"Thank you, very much." She nods her head to him. "It certainly helps me figure out what options are still available to us. I only hope their intentions are as they appear to be."

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

He is privately uneasy hearing himself referred to in the third person, particularly after his last alternate experience.

"If this turns out to be on the level, we couldn't have hoped for it to resolve itself any better. With any luck I'll contact you again tomorrow morning. If I don't... then things probably haven't gone well." He allows a wry smile, envisioning falling prey to some trap or gunfire from Cliff himself. He's escaped traps and gunfire before, of course, but it could cause a delay.

[myra-reldon.livejournal.com]

"I'll keep my PINpoint close, then." As if it ever strayed farther from her than across the apartment.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

With a nod he draws his PINpoint out again, his mind already on the work ahead. "I'll know something by early morning."

He'd like for things to have worked out with the alternate Ming, for her to be easily reformed and glad for Khan's death, but he doesn't know how to say it. Instead he teleports away, assuming the best he can do is let Myra deal with her own alternate while he ensures she won't at least won't have to worry about anything else.