A Breach of Trust :: Part 1

My next mission involved taking the news to Amarr space.

My mind was even more confused: there is no love lost at all between Amarr and Minmatar, and I was being asked to say, to the one, that I had killed their brother on behalf of the other. Additionally to which, I had never heard of the sector to which I was being asked to go, and it involved crossing a large amount of previously-to-me-unknown Minmatar space.

But I would be paid, and quit of [Keteslin] and it might get me closer to the solution to all this mystery. I took the job and set forth through the meanderings of the Minmatar star-gate system.


My new contact was a Sebiestor called Dovirch Anselm,who said he had no objection to my quoting his name, as he was merely an attorney within the Ammatar Consulate's Legan Division, a man of many years' standing, most of them in front of puisne judges (an apparent joke which passed [over my head]). He thanked me for coming, and gave me a doll and co-ordinates of an asteroid where the doll was to be delivered. Apparently it represented the last vestiges of a child's life, to be returned to its parents. I took it, and delivered it, watching all the while for ambush but finding none, to my relief. He paid me, handsomely, and told me to rest and then to return.

When I did, I learned that my behaviour had apparently met with the approval of Anselm (or his "lord" -- though whether he is actually enlieged I cannot tell). I was now told that my target ("Dagan") had once served the family of the lord, before fleeing after Empress Sarum's coronation. An archaeologist two jumps away was said to know Dagan and I am now directed to him as the next step in my voyagings.


I am resolved, now, that for the moment I will sleep aboard my ship, with the hatches sealed and with only the unneeded frivolities left dock-side, everything else loaded, even if I have to load and unload everything myself, morning, [noon], and night. This has ceased to be merely a set of paying jobs -- I now fear for my very life.