Welcome to another The SFR Brigade Presents, and I'm continuing with Tethered this week. After the bewildering news that she's being assigned the role of co-delegate (read the previous snippet HERE), Tyree is getting some details about why an assassin is suddenly playing at diplomacy...
Several members
of the council tsked at her
insolence. G'vorek smiled, deepening the vast collection of wrinkles on his
thin, seamed face. Like the other ancients, the charcoal black of his skin had
faded to gray, giving him a stone-like appearance.
"Your
skills are many, and you are perfect for this role," M'roc continued.
"Why?"
"Perhaps
you should explain the situation more thoroughly," G'vorek said, his voice
like layers of slate sliding over one another.
M'roc clasped
her gnarled hands and threw her co-councilor an exasperated glare before
looking back at Tyree. "I was about to. The Terrans are once more
negotiating their centennial peace treaty with the Tier-vane."
Tyree waved a
hand, dismissing the news as unimportant.
"Perhaps
you'd be less indifferent if I told you there have been three assassination
attempts on the co-delegates? According to tradition, once the delegates on
both sides have been chosen, no others may substitute. It would be taken as a
sign of deception. An attempt at trickery."
"I didn't
know that," Tyree murmured, but she was more interested in the revelation
about the assassination attempts. Whoever had committed those attacks couldn't
have been Inc-Su. It would never have taken three tries, and all of them
failures. If it had—and it would be a first in their history—was that why she
was being assigned? Somehow three Inc-Su had failed, and now they were sending
her?
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It depends on whether the assassination attempts were made against Terran or Tier-vane delegates.
ReplyDeleteNow there's a question...
DeleteI know why. ;)
ReplyDelete:P
DeleteAnd it's getting ready to get REALLY good. :-)
ReplyDelete;)
Delete"his voice like layers of slate sliding over one another"
ReplyDeleteThat description gave me chills. Very cool. :)