<div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0d06/edp7l4ylbdz97uv6g.jpg) <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ari Warcaof </span></strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><div align="center"><strong> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Businessman <br/>(of sorts) </span></strong></div></div></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">I nod slightly as Jaclyn decides it’s best to hear our thoughts.  “In a transactional way we’ve been successful in avoiding du Monde.  The drop with the fence in Berlin, a du Monde test for you, resulted in du Monde believing you were a traitor to her.  Major explosion with resulting tremors.  We can only imagine.   Probably that Nan person’s doing—the police raid.  Anastasia’s Berlin whore house allowed for us to drop out of sight.  To come here.” <br/><br/>“But Anastasia who played you while you were taken to the other house, which I incidentally call Hell, has disappeared.  Danai and Amanda have been in Berlin.  They’re now gone from there.  More than logic says they’ve taken Nasty.” <br/><br/>“So we can’t hide and wait for du Monde to see reason or turn her attention to other matters.  She’s not that way.”<br/><br/>“Voluntarily go back to du Monde.  Convince her that you’re true to her.  Do that on your own or arrange it through the Nan person.  It will work.” <br/><br/></span><div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4474/fy1ijwqfvup45ew6g.jpg) <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Peter Warcaof</span></strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">CGDA Benefactor</span></strong></div></div></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">Ari offers the bottom line first.  <strong>“Rapido.  Nan Rapido, Ari.”</strong> It doesn’t sound as dangerous as it is as Ari explains the only way to solve the dilemma.  <strong>“There has to be something incriminating that you can use to blunt her venom.  Get her confidence.  A spy behind enemy lines as it were.  Create a standoff once you find something.”</strong>  I rub my hands, this is difficult, <strong>“It will be difficult, but the lion’s head thing?  If you go back voluntarily, placing your head into the lion’s mouth, difficult but not torturous.  Voluntary, not captured.  An important key.”</strong>  <br/><br/>Ari adds: “If we snatch back our diamonds, righting that ship, all the better.”  I nod at that reluctantly.  <strong>“A benefit, but not essential.  Believe me.  Not essential.”</strong>  <br/></span>