'I wouldn't say it was likely,' said Garovel, 'but Sai-hee has been known to work with the Vanguard in the protection of civilians. The Vanguard typically doesn't spare much personnel for regions with very low threat-levels. It would make a degree of sense if they both stationed some people here undercover in order to monitor things.'
'I got the impression that Sai-hee mostly just stuck to her own territory, though,' said Hector.
'She does. Monitoring isn't the same as actually intervening. Or, maybe she was considering expanding her territory to include Atreya.'
Hector had a hard time imagining that. 'You really think so?'
'No. But it's still a possibility.'
'What I really wanna know is what the hell happened to these people.'
'Looks like they might've just decided to leave on their own.' Garovel pointed at one of the several notes that Hector hadn't read yet. It was still half-covered by the others in his hand, so he brought it out to read it in full.
More trouble than this is worth. Potential value of intel here seems low. Recommend moving operations to Lorent.Hector cocked an eyebrow.
'Seems like there was someone in Atreya who was aware of their presence,' said Garovel. 'And that someone was making their job difficult.' He pointed at yet another note:
Another asset lost. Poisoned. Operations here are compromised. Recommend immediate withdrawal and mission value reassessment.'There's your poisoning,' said Hector.
'Indeed. Let's have another look around and see if we can find a name attached to this room.'
'Okay.' Hector sifted through the last few notes first, and though they had different handwriting, they were more of the same. Reports of failure and recommendations to leave the country. There must've been several agents reporting to whoever was working out of this place, he figured.
He moved on to the bookshelves on the other side of the room and spent a while searching through the reading material there.
'It's strange that they left all this evidence behind,' said Garovel.
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