<span style="color: #FF0000"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Isolde Devonhard</span><br/>The Shadow</div></span><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/38f1727d-3417-4713-a9a2-7e9f2871cb3a_zps469c3edd.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Isolde nodded first with Sintrina's word, but the she shook her head. Donna wasn't the key, Deanna was. Especially as she got a taste now of Kira's real nature. Maybe they could coax the two Raffiis into working for them.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">„I doubt that Deanna trusts Donna with all the details. Donna is bragging too much, as that Deanna would risk to tell her what she has planned. I am quite sure that she told nobody about her plans, but Kira probably has figured it out. Come on, the girl has some IQ over 200, I doubt that she can't understand any problem you throw at her. But yes, we can shower Donna with compliments, but we won't learn more than how far they are with the project. The key is Deanna...“</span><br/><br/>Isolde kept quite for a moment, pondering about their next moves. They could try the understanding way, they could try the threatening way or a combination of both. Isolde preferred the last, as she knew that a frightened mind was more willingly grasping after straws. They just had nothing on Deanna, that was the problem.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">„I don't believe that Deanna had utterly bad motives to create those devices. Our beautiful doctor is quite selfish and utterly narcistic. Maybe she wanted just to be safe from us, maybe she wanted to increase the age limit for her, maybe she hoped to become kind of an advisor to us. I don't know, but I guess it was something like that. But those devices are intriguing Sintrina. Imagine we could plant those in the minds of the Gunos, the Raffii and the simple folks. And we had the control over the program. We could control them all, had to fear no revolution and we could keep them all peaceful. No surveillance, no illegal activities, no fear of assassins. It would be perfect, but we need to be the ones in control.“</span><br/><br/>Isolde saw how her sister understood the power those devices had and that having them may be helpful. Especially for Freya and Carine later. Isolde wanted those devices, she desperately wanted them. But she had to keep Kari away from it.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">„If we had anything on Deanna, if we could threaten her with the Arena, make her some frightened woman and then throw our cooperation in the ring. Ask her to finish those devices, to implant them, to give us the control and we give her what she wishes. A life as long as ours, a place at our desk, some slaves for herself, it can't be much. And we keep her save of her own daughter. She won't refuse. I saw her eyes, before she fainted. She feared her own daughter. Deanna is a cold woman, but she is a lot like us. We can turn her, make her our tool. But damn, I have nothing on Deanna. I hoped that my spy came up with something. But this woman is like an oyster...she is hard to crack and her secrets are deep inside.“</span><br/><br/>Isolde hit her fist on the desk, angry that Deanna was so slippery.</div>