The Fateful Concorde
by sidious

 

Latra Posae and friends are sitting round a table…

Mary Sedai : Latra Posae, the Choedan Kal factory has been destroyed and the Access Keys are gone.

Latra Posae : *gasp* Our scientists?

Mary Sedai : Severed and then executed.

Latra Posae : Chief scientist Olga Brindelbutt?

Mary Sedai : Severed and then executed.

Latra Posae : Technicians?

Mary Sedai : Severed and then executed.

Latra Posae : Stop saying that! What about the computer guys?

Mary Sedai : Severed.

Latra Posae : Thank goodness.

Mary Sedai : And then executed.

Latra Posae : The Light blind you! What are we to do now?

Sarene Sedai : Well, prudence demands that we now support the Dragon in his quest…

Latra Posae : No! Never. I cannot lose to that man. My reputation is at stake.

Sarene Sedai : But…

Latra Posae : Now listen woman. You are a woman, aren’t you? We stick together. Through thick and thin!

Sarene Sedai : Yes, Latra Posae.

Mary Sedai : Latra Posae, the Dragon has arrived and wishes to see you.

Latra Posae : *gasp* He’s come to gloat over my failure and force my hand. Remember our pact!

Mary Sedai : To the death.

Lews Therin : Good morning Sisters.

All : Lews Therin.

Lews Therin : So…

Latra Posae : So…

Lews Therin : You going to help me now?

Latra Posae : Whatever for? The plan is as strong as ever.

Lews Therin : Your lab is in ruins. I received the intel.

Latra Posae : It is not in ruins. It was a minor invasion that will be cleared by dusk.

Lews Therin : Your staff are all dead, or do you have new ones of those too?

Latra Posae : Actually I do.

Sarene Sedai : We do? *cough* I mean… we do. Yes, it’s backup team… uh… B.

Lews Therin : That’s ridiculous. I’ve never heard of such a team.

Sarene Sedai : It exists, my lord. I swear it.

Latra Posae : We are prepared for everything. Besides, some of the scientists may be alive and are probably working, even surrounded by debris as they are.

Lews Therin : Latra Posae, your scientist’s mangled bodies were delivered to the Hall!

Mary Sedai : Yes, but we took this to be a sign of a truce by the Shadow. They speak in a very unusual dialect, you know.

Lews Therin : Well then, I guess there’s been over a decade of truce. Next time they firebomb a city I shall consider it to be a truce.

Latra Posae : Stay on point, Lews Therin. We shall recover the Access Keys from Sammael’s territory.

Lews Therin : How? All your spies are dead.

Latra Posae : Dead?

Lews Therin : and severed.

Latra Posae : Damn it! What I’m trying to say is that we have accurate intelligence stating that Sammael has weapons of mass destruction. We must invade.

Lews Therin : I doubt the council will fall for that.

Latra Posae : The council is biddable, and if they refuse we will revoke our support of them and they will collapse. We are the council. The rest of the world is biddible to our lies of good intelligence too. We can make a placating press release five years from now and explain it away as an intelligence failure.

Lews Therin : It’s suicide. We will never find the Access Keys.

Mary Sedai : We might not need them.

Lews Therin : What?

Mary Sedai : Well, a very strong willed Aes Sedai with the heart of the Light and a spirit of pureness will be able to handle the sa’angreal unaided.

Latra Posae : She could? I mean.. *cough*… she could. Of course she could.

Lews Therin : That is a lie, and you damn well know it.

Latra Posae : You have no faith in the Light, Dragon. It could work. Hope, persistence, resolve… these are what count in a channeler. Not some pith ter’angreal. We are more than that!

Sarene Sedai : More!

Mary Sedai : More! Yaa!

Lews Therin : Shut up. You would sacrifice the world for your pride?

Latra Posae : My plan might work.

Lews Therin : Your plan is a stinking pile of…

Sarene Sedai : My Lord!

Lews Therin : I’m leaving.



Latra Posae : That … was… awesome.

Sarene Sedai : I know. I’m still shaking.

Mary Sedai : Me too. So who are we going to find to try the sa’angreal plan?

Latra Posae : Fool woman, we can’t go through with that. It’s suicide.

Mary Sedai : Yes, but the Dragon can still feed us to jumara if he has proof of our lies.

Latra Posae : *sigh* Fine then, send a signed letter to Belinda Sedai. She was always a fool. She’s also prettier than me. And she didn’t support my vote on the Paaren Disen potato riots.

Mary Sedai : I’ll send the letter right away.

Latra Posae : Include stuff about patriotism, you are our last hope… blah blah.

Mary Sedai : Gotcha.

Sarene Sedai : Still, maybe what we’re doing isn’t right.

Latra Posae : Indeed. Mary..

Mary Sedai : Yes, Latra Posae?

Latra Posae : Make Belinda’s mission a command from the Hall. We can’t rely on her free will to get in the way. Better?

Sarene Sedai : Much.

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