Smoke from M’s pipe swirled above the map as he looked to his agents. There was something embarrassing about the way they were dressed to come into the office, but M resigned to the fact that these were young agents, new to the service, it was after hours, and they had all arrived within an hour, which is more than he could say for half the 00-Section. It was just his Victorian-parented upbringing getting the better of him.<br/><br/>“You’ll draw equipment from Q Branch as usual. We will transport a small mini-submarine to the mouth of the Jana River and, camouflaged, it will work its way upstream until the ice floes and the narrowing river prevent it from going further. Once you have finished your mission, you will rendezvous with it and return to Alaska in the sub. The sub will wait for you until 1800 hours local Siberia time on April 3,” M paused, and then spoke with conviction, “and then it will leave.”<br/><br/>M waited and tested, waiting to see what else his new agents might ask.<br/>