(@Molly) [19:46] (@Molly) * @Fuchs gives brief instructions for where they might be found in the next few hours before they ride off in the direction of the lakeside guardhouse. Outside the gates he makes a mixed pitch whistle, and two guards appear seemingly from nowhere. Fuchs instructs them to present themselves at the house and then go to the nursery and take on whatever duties Claudia gives them.
(@Molly) [19:47] (@Molly) *he looks to Morgan* Is there any specific password or code that she or your wife would know meant you had sent them?
* Morgan looks at the guards before looking at Fuchs
(Morgan) you trust these men?
** You're now known as Fuchs
(@Fuchs) With my life.
* Morgan looks at them
(Morgan) I call her blossom, thats about the only thing I share with no-one else
(@Fuchs) *Both men look at him, nodding* Yes, my Lord
* @Fuchs looks thoughtful a moment
(@Fuchs) Do you use it in public?
(Morgan) Not generally, no
(@Fuchs) That should work then. Otherwise, a date or place of significance tends to work well with women, a first kiss or "I love you". But the nickname should be fine.
(@Fuchs) **the guards watch Morgan, awaiting dismissal*
(Morgan) idnil-hem... she'll remember that
(@Fuchs) **They nod*
* @Fuchs looks to them
(@Fuchs) I'll be staying the night at his Grace's, so I'll catch you up on the situation at the clearing then, after I've seen the families. *he looks solemn, and the three of them briefly exchange bear hugs*
* @Fuchs mounts back up as they go into Faulk's estate. The road to the lakeside guardhouse is empty, and he rides next to Morgan
(@Fuchs) What can you tell me about the girl?
(Morgan) She's clever, a damn good throw, dedicated... 
(Morgan) and utterly ruthless
(@Fuchs) She's montaigne,  and interested in the montaigne comte who was in our jail...
(Morgan) And apparently willing to do anything to get to him
* @Fuchs looks thoughtful
(@Fuchs) Is the Comte still in our jail?
* Morgan shakes his head
(@Fuchs) Damn. We could have used him as bait.
* Morgan shrugs
(Morgan) She nearly killed him from an adjacent building... I don't think having him as bait would've worked
(@Fuchs) What happened to him?
(Morgan) He's leaving Eisen
* @Fuchs nods slowly
(@Fuchs) Then chances are so is she... *he frowns* when was he let out?
(Morgan) last night. I had him escorted out of town
* @Fuchs ponders this a moment
(@Fuchs) How good at what she does do you think this girl is?
(Morgan) Everything I've seen suggests she's very good
(@Fuchs) He left town last night. The guards went to her residence this morning, and were dead within hours...
(Morgan) There's a chance she hadn't realised that he'd gone
(@Fuchs) But she was living across from him enough to try and execute him with a blowdart
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) We hardly made a song and dance about him leaving... unless, of course, Alarice is on her list to speak to
(@Fuchs) Or she is here on another task
(Morgan) possibly... 
(@Fuchs) Do you have the note from the knife?
* Morgan hands it over
* @Fuchs takes it
(@Fuchs) "No contact with local. Remove. Return."
(@Fuchs) At a guess, she is supposed to be getting rid of him, then returning to wherever her employers expect her to return to.
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) sounds reasonable
(@Fuchs) So either she should be chasing him down, or leaving Fischler because her job is done. She shouldn't have still been here. And if she didn't notice he was gone, she's not that good at her job.
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) I'd really rather like to find out
(@Fuchs) What do you know about her employers?
(Morgan) Not a great deal... they're Eisen, she serves out of dedication rather than fear. They'r happy to torture
* @Fuchs looks at the note again
(@Fuchs) Big organisation perhaps?
(Morgan) could be. Probably in fact, certainly with enough resource for good training. She can go without sleep almost as long as me. Thats no mean feat
(@Fuchs) How long can you go?
(Morgan) before I start to get... erratic?
* @Fuchs laughs
(@Fuchs) Before you pass out
(Morgan) Coming on for two weeks, if I have to. I've gone 40 days sleeping no more than 20 minutes at a time overnight
(@Fuchs) Bloody hell!
(@Fuchs) I definitely couldn't do it. I've only slept the Middle Watch ((12-4am))since the war ended, and I could manage without that a week, but I'd be horrendously grumpy
* @Fuchs watches him a moment
(@Fuchs) How long before you get erratic?
(Morgan) its not so much erratic as... less forgiving, perhaps... I'm a harder person to be around. 
(Morgan) I get to that at around six days
(@Fuchs) So you'll be fine these four days til your father arrives?
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) I imagine I'll catch a half hour somewhere
* @Fuchs nods, looking at the paper again
(@Fuchs) If we're lucky, 323 is to do with the date,  location or payment...
(@Fuchs) If we're a little unlucky it's the number of targets so far...
(Morgan) a little unlucky...
(@Fuchs) If we're _very_ unlucky, it's her number within the organisation
* @Fuchs hands the note back
(@Fuchs) "No contact with local"... local what?
(Morgan) you're thinking local agent
(@Fuchs) **They start to get nearer the lakeside guardhouse. The nearby clock chimes half after five.
* @Fuchs nods
(@Fuchs) It's possible. If I was running a big group, I'd want a local framework.
* @Fuchs watches him a moment
(@Fuchs) This could be a whole world of trouble
* Morgan nods
(@Fuchs) Problem is, I can't just let it go and hope she disappears from Fischler forever.
(Morgan) Naturally 
* @Fuchs looks down the path
(@Fuchs) His Grace mentioned some mind-control seeds
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) delivered on the end of a stiletto blade
(@Fuchs) Like the one she threw at you?
(Morgan) exactly like...
* @Fuchs looks at him appraisingly
(@Fuchs) Did it work? Would you know, if it had?
(Morgan) I remember it making me... unsteady. And then I had it removed before it really took hold
(@Fuchs) That was lucky
(Morgan) it didn't feel it at the time
(@Fuchs) I'll bet
(@Fuchs) **where there were no visible guards at the entrance to the lakeside house, there are now two in livery
(Morgan) thats a marked change
* @Fuchs nods
(@Fuchs) It's prudent now to display that the place is defended. We've always kept this place quiet before, but we need to be sure that any allies of hers know we are prepared
* Morgan nods
(@Fuchs) Plus we won't have to go through all the coded passwords business
* Morgan nods
(Morgan) that was quite clever, though
(@Fuchs) The thing with the vegetables?
(Morgan) the lack of password
(@Fuchs) Ahhh he told you to say there wasn't one?
* Morgan nods
(@Fuchs) You should be flattered
(Morgan) oh?
(@Fuchs) That means "This person is trusted by the Eisenfurst and has permission to take any action they wish"
* Morgan nods
(@Fuchs) Sometimes he tells people to ask for turnips which means "watch me and report back" or carrots "conversation but prisoner remains in cell". Once he even had an onion "I'm here and should be immediately arrested"
* Morgan laughs
(Morgan) oh thats good
(@Fuchs) Did they ask if you were lost?
* Morgan nods
(@Fuchs) If you'd be told to say "Yes, I'm looking for the Eisenfurst's peach orchard", you'd have been permanently lost.
(Morgan) ah
(@Fuchs) He's never done it, but it's useful to know
** You are now disconnected