<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/68/Soifon.jpeg)</div><strong>Name</strong>: Kurumi Tatsu Kurita<strong>Date</strong>: May 3025<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Siege Perilous: Karnov Transport<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: Open<br/><strong>Content</strong>: Conversation and Plots<br/><br/><hr/>Kurumi watched the terrain streak by outside the VTOL as Cavanaugh began providing her information on the current powers that be on the planet the people that were influential and whom she would most likely soon be dealing with.<br/><strong>“True, many may see my arrival as the sign of House Kurita’s taking and increased interest in the planet and it’s nobles. Some will see me as a threat, real or imagined to their own less than Honorable dealings.”</strong>She said her eyes momentarily moving back to Cavanaugh before she let him continue with his intel.<br/>Having inside information on their natures and dealings would prove to be invaluable. Of course until she completely trusted the Kommandant and the information that he shared she couldn’t treat it as actionable intelligence.  Still it would give her an edge in her dealings on the planet.<br/><br/>So the current nominal leader of the planet was here by his own request; interesting too was that he was a proficient pilot and warrior. She mused as Cavanaugh continued his impromptu briefing. So the second in command seemed to be capable as well yet preferred to play the social general as well, to act the fool, or at least in his case the drunkard.<br/>The obvious question was why. It clearly made them appear to be less dangerous than they were, but again that deception usually only suffices for so long before it’s known to be an act. Especially if there are two playing the same game and they were rivals however private.<br/>The Kommandant knew that it was an act so who else did as well, or was it more intended for the probably endless parade of lesser and useless nobles that visited this charming little world. Of course it could be them playing to what the expectation of their role was, a backwater planet not crucial to the plans of any of the Great Houses yet occupied by all of them to some degree the place that the less competent would be sent, out of the way.<br/><br/><strong>“Dance?”</strong>She repeated to the man, in a halftone, her gaze looking back to him as he continued his assessment.<br/><strong>"So desu ka."</strong>Kurumi said her head making a single nod, her lips in just the hint of a smirk.<strong>“So what is your estimation of his assessment of me should I agree or decline his offer to dance Kommandant?”</strong>She asked her attention now focused on Cavanaugh as she awaited his response.<br/><br/>She would have to speak with Kagamusha-san about his dealings with Margrave Hoffmann and if they would interfere with her own plans…<br/><br/><strong>“So does House Liao have anything worth protecting… on Perilous, and who runs the black market?”</strong>She asked her smirk plainly evident before she settled back into her seat. She assumed there would be a thriving black market on the planet in fact she’d be surprised if it wasn’t the real power on the world at the moment.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>So desu ka  = I see<br/>