It all sounds really reasonable, honestly. You can't stir up the middle classes with slogans alone. You've got to rob them of their comfort. Like her mum and her dad, back home - as long as they had their lovely house and their lovely paychecks, they were never going to understand Kitty, or even hear her. If they'd had that taken away, though -
Well. No use thinking of them now. Or ever, really. Honestly, they're worth forgetting altogether.
Here, satisfied he has her, Flint attends to the teacup once more. Takes a sip. "Exactly what you were trying to do to with my things at the Boar," Flint says.
Which is to say: spy work. Worming around places he can't rightly go or can't easily access and putting her eyes on documents, her ears at the edge of conversation. "The more we know about what's going in and out of Thedas' major ports, the better prepared we'll be to plan where to make our runs. Make friends. Have them write you as they're abroad. If we're to do this properly, we'll need that intelligence so we can do this quietly. The worst version of this is to have the Imperium's citizens blame the Inquisition for overreach, rather than the Venatori and their ties to Corypheus."
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Date: 2019-01-19 01:31 am (UTC)Well. No use thinking of them now. Or ever, really. Honestly, they're worth forgetting altogether.
"And what can I do?"
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Date: 2019-01-30 11:23 pm (UTC)Which is to say: spy work. Worming around places he can't rightly go or can't easily access and putting her eyes on documents, her ears at the edge of conversation. "The more we know about what's going in and out of Thedas' major ports, the better prepared we'll be to plan where to make our runs. Make friends. Have them write you as they're abroad. If we're to do this properly, we'll need that intelligence so we can do this quietly. The worst version of this is to have the Imperium's citizens blame the Inquisition for overreach, rather than the Venatori and their ties to Corypheus."