6: Lakshadweep or Bust
Mercy didn't know if she was being too forthright or perhaps trying to trip up Maybelle in case she was a Vril agent. After all, it wasn't that unlikely since they'd just met Maybelle outside the Vril Society booth. It certainly seemed reasonable to Mercy that they might have sent someone to infiltrate their group.
If they did, indeed, have strange mental powers, though, might they not have already learned what they wanted to? Like the fact that Mercy's group had stopped the explosion. For that matter, the Vril ladies hadn't seem all that concerned (not that Mercy observed, at any rate) about the big explosion not have occurred. Did they already know what had happened? Or had not been aware what the men were doing?
"The Vril men were trying to assassinate the Queen, along with all the other important people in attendance, with a great bomb set to go off during the opening ceremonies," Mercy explained to Maybelle.
"They had been planning on blowing open the hangar doors here for a quick escape. As near as we can tell, it was supposed to be a series of timed explosions. I... um... accidentally set them all off at once... when they weren't ready."
"I know I should feel bad that several of them died, but they were going to kill a lot more people. The accident let us find out about their plot... with enough time to stop it."
"So, that's what our day has been like."
"I'd invite you to join us, but not only isn't it my place, but I'm sure you have performances you need to do."