Around 9 in the evening, I received a message with
GPS coordinates
and a retrieval code that I’m supposed to message back to this same contact number. I imagine it is one that is meant to be thrown away and
not truly attached
to the seller.
Using the message feature to open the phone’s map app directly, I see that it was an
abandoned lot
behind a long defunct paper mill (according to the location ratings) miles outside the city proper. Which is to say, quite close to the
railyard I’ve already been to
and way down by the industrial district.
I was to arrive between 2:00 and 4:00 AM, alone, and text the code. Every
royal instinct
told me this was
potentially
a trap. Yet, if these hunters operated within the Council’s broader framework, then openly attacking a werewolf
without provocation
would violate their own protocols.
> Does tricking them into thinking I was one of them, but still actually paying for the good I bought count as provocation? If so, then their whole concept of trade anonymity needs reworking! This place looks perfect for an ambush. Also perfect for me to disappear if things go wrong if no one is hiding behind them. How dangerous... Of all the places they might have acquired a container in the world, my purchase had come from Kyrie Voss’s company? If this BoundaryKeeper purchased them legally, then that means some of the money I took from her card is going right back to her company... Did she know? Is she monitoring her card’s usage and somehow orchestrated this? That’s not creepy at all. How was it even done? Should I respond? Thank them? Or pretend I never noticed this invasion? Nothing new, there. I’m starting to feel like Kyle! <