mental link | day :034

[ophidia]

[The mental impression that comes with the connection is clean, precise. Confident in reaching like this, touching so many minds at once. If anything there's a desire, simmering beneath, to press and push even further than one simple stated request.]

( I need everything we have on the Carpathans. )

[And he sounds like he expects to get it.]

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[sizeofyourbaggage]

( I kinda think I should say 'I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours' here. ) [ He kind of is saying it, honestly, but... he's also not a fan of withholding information that should be readily available, especially not when someone asks for it. ]

( All right, two questions for you - someone tell you what's probably gonna happen if we blow our cover here, and do you want this the quick way or the old fashioned way? )

[ophidia]

[He doesn't respond to that, but some sharp annoyance makes itself known. He was already aware of the dysfunction of this group, but having it thrown in his face is stretching his patience.]

( Quick. And I got the brief. The robes stay on. )

[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ It's hard to get riled up at that annoyance when Sam gets it. But they're all a dysfunctional, suspicious group, and it seems to continue in a cycle of people wanting information but not wanting to share themselves.

It is what it is, and Sam doesn't push the cover thing.

It's on his mind as he widens their link a little to share what he knows of the Carpathans, though. There's a snippet of memory - Cathaway's terribly fixed attention as she says, The danger is more real in this than it was on the Waypoint or in Concordia. We can't afford to have our position compromised if it would mean they would follow you back to this place, and his own voice saying If we blow our cover, we're on our own. - but he pulls back from that.

He shares the same memory Annie had, though it's from him seeing it from her mind, and the follow up conversation from the Descendants about the two dead bodies. The rest of what he shares is more impressions and knowledge than direct memories: the rivalry between the Carpathans and Meradans, exploited during the hunt, and a guard potentially close to Black named Aamihan Lake mentioned as one of those in a discussion with Rhan. ]

( There's some weird shit that no one's been able to tie to any of the factions, far as I know, but that's all I've got on them. )

[ophidia]

[The snippet of warning doesn't actually land like a warning at all. Richard's never run a job with any kind of safety net, and had assumed the same for everything here. It's redundant information, and leaves him thinking there's a lack of control at play, a slipping grip on exactly what's relevant to be shared in response to his request.

But the rest seems tight enough. Useful. More pieces to the picture.]

( Anything more on the Descendants? )

[Because why they'd want to get in bed with the Carpathans is already niggling at him.]