Sir Hückebein calls in a Reeve accountant to check and verify all the expenditures. “This will take a while, Sirrah”, says the Reeve with a clipped voice. “Some of these are quite… unorthodox.” Sir Hückebein waves him away and bids Jonas a good day.
Arriving at the SOE guild hall, Jonas is shown to the small room where Lady Brass resides. She is bent over a workbench, two of her many limbs soldering a small component onto a rapidly blinking device. Swirling her head 180 degrees around, she smiles as Jonas enters.
“Mr. Fisher! Good to see you again. I hear that you managed to capture Mr. Siddir alive and well. Well done! I will not ask how you did it, but if you would like to elaborate, it would please my memory banks.”
Finishing the soldering work, she turns her body around and one multi-jointed arm snakes out to pick up the small think machine that Jonas gave her.
“Now, there was some nasty countermeasures on here, and some of the finer details were lost, but this speaks of House Cameton and a terrible conspiracy to infiltrate the great Houses with antinomists sleeper agents. Apparently, they already have several people in place and are working to tighten their grasp. I was able to extract a partial list of names and targets.”
She manages to produce a frown on her metallic face. “This could threaten a lot of things. I suggest you convey this information to the relevant authorities as soon as possible – but make sure whomever you speak to is trustworthy. I can recommend a person who is here on Acheon, and who has contacts on Byzantium Secundus. A Charioteer named Vesper. She performed a small service for me and might be useful.”