BattleTech Legends: Black Dragon by Victor Milán

Author:Victor Milán [Milán, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2011-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

His wingtip shoes crunching the gravel of the circular drive that ran before the mansion’s white-pillared portico, Benjamin Inagawa stopped to let an aide drape a caped trenchcoat over the broad shoulders of his pin-striped suit. Then he turned to look off over the high wall at the wooded ridge across the road.

“Undoubtedly our Internal Security Force friend has snipers placed up there, watching us through powerful scopes at this very minute,” he said.

“Undoubtedly they can read your lips as well, oyabun,” said the aide, a young man much too harried to put on weight.

Inagawa laughed. “Of course they can.” He put a cigarette between his lips. Another aide materialized to light it.

The harried aide kept casting apprehensive glances at the ridge. “How can you be so sure the Shadowed One is ISF, Inagawa-Mwrea?”

“Not just ISF, but a highly placed official. He made it clear at the very outset,” Benjamin Inagawa didn’t doubt for an instant that the Shadowed One was male. Women were too inconsequential. Returning them firmly to their places was one reason he was in Kokuryu-kai. “Indeed, that’s the only reason to put up with the way he talks to us, as if we are his underlings.”

The nervous aide opened the rear door of the long, low black Shodan limo. “Surely it will please the oyabun to sit and rest his legs.”

Inagawa laughed at his assistant’s transparent discomfort. He threw the cigarette down, and leaving its ember aglow in the gravel, got into the car.

The aide slid in across from him. The other aide sat up front, beside the sewanuki driver. As the car tires began to crunch down the drive, the harried aide—emboldened by windows specially tinted to discourage lip-readers, and double-paned and polarized to prevent a laser from reading conversation within from vibrations on the glass—said, “Surely you will not proceed with your plans for the night, oyabun.”

Inagawa gave him a look. “Surely I will. Why not?”

“But you told the Shadowed One you’d walk carefully as a cat on a fence!” the aide almost wailed.

“And have you never seen two tomcats fighting on a fence?” Inagawa asked.

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