E-mail to Garrison Kane

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From: [Frost, Emma]
To: [Kane, Garrison]


Mr Kane

Now that I'm back in the country, I believe that you may be interested in the end game of the Deathbird gambit.

I used my not inconsiderable reputation as an expert in mutant weaponisation to obtain permission to travel to Srinagar. I took the opportunity to take Ms Neramani along for the trip. Our little warrior princess was able to see the end result of her works. See it, smell it, walk through it, deal with its suppurating wounds and help bury it.

I wasn't aware that any single human being could vomit that much.

Ms Neramani returned to her home and announced to the world that her experiences in assisting in the clean-up operation had made her reconsider her life in the public eye and that she was renouncing politics and withdrawing to live a life of quiet religious devotion and penance.

Ms Neramani is indeed penitent. She lives inside her own mind now. I have closed off her every access to the outside world. All she sees, all she hears, all that replays endlessly in her head is what she did to Srinagar. We walked and rode and drove through the shattered fucking hole she left in the world for three days, but it's all that she will see for the rest of her days unless I feel inclined to let her out.

I spent my birthday in Srinagar.

I do not think I will be inclined to let her out.

I have organised staff to care for her, through the good offices of her brother. I intend to make sure Ms Neramani lives for a very long time indeed.

Whoever made the tripwire in her head made a mistake. No telepath could get information out of Ms Neramani without her shattering beyond repair. But she could still volunteer information. And I could build a structure outside the tripwire. Bypass it without touching it. I've shut her off with the tripwire inside and it hasn't been triggered. The idea of the tripwire was good. The execution was - amateurish. Clumsy. By my standards, anyway.

It is something to consider in the future.

Now I intend to have yet another shower and several very large drinks.

Emma

Comments

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I particularly feel much, if any pity for the woman. She deserves to spend the rest of her life in a prison, and if it happens to be in her own head, that suits me fine. Fred and I were curious about her sudden statement of resignation from public life, but we assumed that it was coming from pressure from her brother.

On a not at all lighter note, I don't suppose that you've got any political connections to the District Attorney's office?

--Kane

[x-celsis.livejournal.com]

No political. Personal, yes. The DA and I share a number of mutual passions.

Should you be making me aware of something?

Emma

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Should I? No, not at all, but sometimes you have to bend the rules a little.

Maybe mention in the next few days how much more politically advantageous it is to put Mafia and organized crime figures in jail ahead of anyone else. It would help.

--Kane