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[UPDATE] Anna Heath, June 29 2006 - Secret Rendezvous
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zaeil
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 		[UPDATE] Anna Heath, June 29 2006 - Secret Rendezvous
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Secret Rendezvous

Thursday, 29th June 2006

You may be relieved to know that I made it through my meeting with Henrik intact in mind and body.

I do find it comforting that you're all so concerned about my safety. Believe me, though, when I say this: In all our motley band of conspirators, I am not the risk taker! The others may all do brash and senseless things, but I do have children to be concerned with, don't I? I'm not going to be leaping from exploding buildings or breaking into secret military bases, that's for certain!

Still, it is important to keep in mind that anybody at all could be dangerous. I suppose even Henrik might be. I discussed it with Kurt, and he didn't want to give me any sort of beacon that could be easily detected, for obvious reasons. We did reconfigure my key settings a bit, though; so if my key detected signs of injury or significant agitation, it would alert the others as well as the medical authorities. As you can see, it wasn't necessary.

Henrik signalled me last night in the most adorable fashion. He ordered a delivery of Julian blooms to my office yesterday morning - nine of them - and I laughed aloud when I saw them. You wouldn't know it from his professional behaviour, but he always was something of a romantic. This was a code we used in the old days, meaning that I should meet him by the Julian beds in Polygon Park at 9pm. Who would know but us? And it was fun to be sharing a little secret like that, like I was that carefree young girl again.

I of course told Kurt the specifics, as an extra safeguard. I'd told Fleming days ago that I was going to have a sudden evening meeting sometime this week, so we already had a plan in place in case I was out in the evening; but fortunately, the meeting was late enough in the day that I could have dinner with my family and even read a few bedtime stories before I left.

Have I mentioned how very strange it is to kiss your children good-bye so mummy can go out to a covert meeting? So much for the life of the dusty academic!

At any rate, I met Henrik by the Julian beds as scheduled. He was already there, and indicated we should walk while we talked, and so we spent a very pleasant time strolling among the gardens at Polygon, looking at the blossoms. So very like old times. Except for the conversation.

'So,' I ventured, 'I think we have some business to conduct?'

'Ah, Anna, direct as always,' he said. Then he was quiet for a while. 'What I'm about to tell you is somewhat in violation of certain professional standards I uphold, if you follow.'

I nodded.

'I'm putting a lot of trust in you,' he continued. 'It's a ridiculous and impulsive gamble, but I think giants are battling above us, and I don't want to be stepped on.'

I nodded again. A light breeze picked up around then, and bathed us in the incongruous scent of lemon balm.

He shook his head back and forth a bit to loosen his neck. 'Starting in late 267, there were equipment thefts from certain very sensitive areas of the Academy,' he said. 'So sensitive I'm not officially aware of them - but if you do my kind of job well, you eventually catch on. Some theft reports were filed with my office, though, and I began an investigation. I think that was never supposed to happen.'

'What did you find?' I asked.

He shook his head. 'Mostly a lot of nothing. Nobody knew what the gear was, or what it was for, or who it was going to or missing from. It became an unscratchable itch for me.'

I crossed my arms in front of me. 'That sounds ominous,' I said.

He grimaced. 'As best I could discover, something very suspicious was going on in the cryptography department. I think there's an internal breach of security on the crypto team.' His jaw clenched. 'I can't even prove it's not the whole department.

'But before I could crack it, Bernardo Holyoke was murdered in the Five of Cups. Around then, I was officially notified that the thefts had become a police matter and out of my jurisdiction, and that I shouldn't spend any more resources on the investigation.'

I blinked, surprised, then pursed my lips together. 'And then the police said it was nothing special.'

He shoved his hand in a pocket and fished out his key. 'I'll give you all of the data in the case file,' he said. 'Provided you tell me why it is you want to know.'

I stopped, then, and looked at my feet. 'I can't,' I said. 'I really can't.'

He frowned at me, and I relented a bit.

'I think you're right about the giants battling over our heads, Henrik,' I said. I paused and ran my fingers over the petals of a rose. 'All I can say is, my aim is to find out what's happening, the same as you. I have pieces of a different puzzle, but I think they fit together. And that's really - that's all I can say.'

He started to shake his head, slowly.

'Please, Henrik,' I said. I think my voice was rising a little as my sense of desperation grew. I laid a hand on his arm. 'Please just trust me.'

He reached a hand to my chin and stared intently into my eyes for a minute. And then he sent a data burst to my key.

I haven't looked over the data much myself - so far it looks like a bunch of witness reports in which various people say absolutely nothing interesting at all. I've turned it all over to Kurt, though, and we'll see what he makes of it in the coming days. I had a brief talk with Kurt and Violet on my way in this morning, and it seems clear to all of us that somehow, we have to get more information on what's going on in crypto, somehow.

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 		Time to have Anna (or Kurt at this point) post them and make us look for inconsistencies in the interrogations to pin the liars and the people who know too much about the case to be innocent!

Of course, Kurt might just do them alone like he said, but I'm ready to get cracking again.

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Henrik signalled me last night in the most adorable fashion. He ordered a delivery of Julian blooms to my office yesterday morning


Julian blooms, eh. We've heard of those before.

/me wonders if Henrik knows Sylvia Salk...
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Anna Heath, June 29 2006 - Secret Rendezvous
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I'm not going to be leaping from exploding buildings or breaking into secret military bases, that's for certain!
Next week, on the Anna Heath Danger Hour!! She fFlies through exploding trains while tethered to a helicopter! She eats tin-cans fFor breakfast! Not only is she a real doctor, she's a real dashing spacial agent with a PH.D. in Kicking your ... *Starts to quote Dr. Tran, then gets bored and goes to play Rummy*
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