veilbreak | bishop 002.

Updates:

1. Mission Kamchatka has deployed. St James remains on board to coordinate.

2. We have brought aboard four volunteer for the Neuroclast project: two grounded Dislinked agents and two civilians. They are being given partial access to the Mnemosyne: mess hall and public areas only. If you see someone in an area they should not be, please alert your chain of command immediately.

3. Medani and Aldana will deploy to Sighişoara on Sunday and will be there throughout the planned SP. Our goal, as a reminder, is to reVeil as many civilians as possible. Ground forces will deploy two days before in order to begin quiet evacuation of those who cannot be reVeiled.

4. For those who weren't able to be present at the meeting held by McLeod on Monday, the key takeaways are:
• The current flight of planes can be modified. Keane and Hyun have already begun compiling the necessary parts from Jacobs, Koskinen, Maverick, and Wijk. The liklihood of sourcing in time is low, but I will defer to Keane as that is her area of expertise.

• de Vries, McLeod, and Thomas will begin searching the ground for any additional planes. I'll provide them with intel I have accrued on active and inactive bases.

• According to Hwang's calculations, the Architects' envoy should hit Earth airspace in the early morning of March 13th.

5. [...] We will be bringing additional agents aboard in the next week. As with any former undercover agent, their previous mission is classified until we can be sure all loose ends are tied up.

If you have questions, put them here.

ALDANAS.

I am informing you that Agent Alba Gutiérrez Vega has been compromised. I will be deploying an agent to escort her to a stronghold and then she will be brought onboard.

ST JAMES, BONE, SINCLAIR, DAWSON, NOVAK - SEPARATELY.

I am informing you that [Reid, Flores Romero, Lynfield, Aldana Gutiérrez, Aldana] has a family member that is an Undercover agent whose identity has been compromised. The agent will be escorted to a stronghold before coming aboard. I will inform [Reid, Flores Romero, Lynfield, Aldana Gutiérrez, Aldana] upon return, but it might be shock, so I'm asking you to ensure they remain centered.

OOC: Jax gets Jamie's name, Maryle gets Dom's name, Nishad gets Sloane's name, Cal gets Eva's name, and Niko gets Adri's name

LIM, MCLEOD, BATTEAUX, SINCLAIR.

I'll deploying you to retrieve compromised Undercover agents. Lim, you'll be retrieving Agent Lynfield; McLeod, Agent Gutiérrez Vega; Batteaux, Agent Reid; Sinclair, Agent Flores Romero. Details will be provided when you are formally deployed. This is a stealth mission and considered classified. They will all pretend to be under the Veil until you provide their specific code word, which is in the documents you will receive.

Questions?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I meant that I am the unfortunate one.

And I'm aware he does.

He's not a dalliance for you.

He's not, but he's not you, either.

Does that bother you?

It bothers me that you might have regrets. Now, or later.

The only regret I have about Nikola is that I can't be what he needs.

I want to be what you need.

Is that because of me?

No, it's not because of you. It isn't because of anyone. I didn't think that I would ever want to be something to another person, but then I found you, and I found Nikola, and I started thinking that maybe I could. But I know what Nikola wants, and even if I wanted to be that for him, I can't. Despite how important he is to me, he isn't who or what I want. I couldn't give up everything for him, and that isn't anyone's fault. I want him to be happy and to find someone who can give him everything.

But you. [...] I don't know what you want, but I know, with singleminded certainty, that I want to and can be that for you. And I know I don't want anyone else to take you from me.

No one is taking me from you, Adrían.

I'm clearly not communicating this well.

What do you want, Philip?

I think we're flying circles around each other right now.

I have always wanted you, Aldana. You were clear from the start about the distinction between those you were sleeping with and those you were seeing; I based my 'dalliances' off that -- I had to, because I couldn't stand to be alone when you were with others, and I refused to push you away with my neediness at the time -- but I don't think it's ever been more than excellent sex and friendship with those I'm still involved with.

It's pretty simple: you're the only one I want to go home to. I just didn't want to be in the way of anyone else, because I know your relationship with Niko is different than others.

All right. I want you to come home to me, too. [...] Except for Jackson and Niko, I don't intend to take any other lovers. And I don't expect that I'll be sleeping with either of them for much longer. I'll be yours and yours alone.

I'm not going to ask the same of you — not now, at least — but I just want to be yours.

Good. Now I think you should come to my office and kiss me.

Edited (ie the plane hangar ) 2026-02-19 20:55 (UTC)

I suppose I can make time in my busy schedule to stop by.

And bring your genius science brain.

Well, that I'm not sure I can do. I was going to leave it in the lab.

I think it needs to be allowed to see the cool planes.

Planning to take me on a tour?

It had to happen sometime.

I'm much more interested in a tour of your office. Particularly how well that lock works.

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