Funerary Rites 30: Adjustments

[aldersprig]

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Ezer cleared his throat. “How likely is this to interfere with our business?”

“I think,” Senga admitted quietly, “that it’s already doing so.  I think that whatever happened with that job the other day, it was probably family-related - my family.  I mean, unless you or Allayne have come up with enemies lately that you haven’t told me about.”

“What about Chitter?”  Erramun looked between the two of them, ignoring the staff for the moment.

Ezer snorted. “She just makes online enemies.  They’d hack the house - one of them made the icemaker spew ice all over the kitchen once - but they don’t generally sink to attempted murder.  They think it’s messy and sort of below them, I think.”

“Murder?”  Candavish leaned forward.  “You’re not speaking of Mirabella.”

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Comments

[sauergeek]

Hrm. There's no equivalent treatment of the two senior maids; it may be necessary to do a similar thing. However, they're answering questions, unlike Candavish, which may mean there's no compulsion on them — or they're better at hiding it. Does any of Senga's team have a means of telling if someone is lying, or hiding truth?

Getting all this out into the open is useful. And why am I unsurprised that the staff knows what Senga does?