Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25389303-20160708180726/@comment-5999656-20160712010845

(Sounds good! And no worries, I love long posts. Unfortunately I don't think mine will be that long because it's merely setup for Zan and Hector's interaction)

A few days later...

Zanipher sat in her spacious office in a tall business building in downtown Vale. Even from up here, the sounds of the street were faintly recognizable through the many floors from ground level. The urban image was a sharp departure from the wooded sloping forest of her encounter with the mysterious, rag-clothed militiamen.

But this was her realm. Discreet movement and hubs of human activity were the necessary foundation for her specialty of private investigations. And so it bothered her that she was going to have to deal with an adversary who cloaked themselves in the wilderness of the hinterlands. Normally the Dragons left such groups alone. They rarely strayed into the centres of civilization, preferring to call the Grimm's land their domain.

If the people she'd encountered were of this classic sort, then there would be little issue. But if they were trying to establish a foothold in Vale, and especially if they were using associates of the Dragons to gain insider information on the Nine Heads, well, she couldn't let such dangerous knowledge be dispersed among the Nine's enemies.

Arcelia had recommended a meeting using technology. And the First Dragon had also cautioned Zanipher against trying to intimidate the opposition into giving in, and instead maintain a relatively humble, respectful approach to the group's leader. They'd gone ahead and went with the dropping of the letters, but so far no response had come even though they'd provided a proxy email address.

''We need information. ''No profile, whether public or dark, matched that of the man named Smiler. At this point the most straightforward option was to go for a meeting. And if another three days passed without a response, they would go ahead and initiate a kingdom-wide investigation of any and all possible connections in the underworld. And if that still yielded nothing, the lack of a response would have to be interpreted as an unwillingness to compromise, and the Dragons would launch their first ever alliance-wide elimination project.