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they knew he was an informer he shook his head but the big one said i heard they saw him an alley taking money from an officer of the guard a skinny fellow who looked like he was related to the guy with the ears said i heard he was pretending to be a foreigner but someone recognized him anyone say what he looked like they all shook their heads i looked down at the drunk guy and nudged him with my foot you should probably get this guy home they mumbled agreement got him to his feet and wandered off so did i believe this story probably filtered through dozens of people who only heard half of it i d normally say no if he hadn t mentioned that bit about pretending to be a foreigner damn i fell for it too if i hadn t already been angry enough to kill him that would have made me angry enough to kill him i hate being made a fool of it seemed likely enough at any rate to be worth looking at further but i still didn t know how to find the bastard okay then if i couldn t find him on the street i could start from the opposite side from who he was informing to who would handle informers someone at the palace no doubt but that got me as far as the knowledge that if i wanted to find a particular clam i should look in the ocean sea where in the palace dragon wing imperial wing maybe the iorich wing i could even make an argument for the yendi wing i found a quiet spot between two houses where i wouldn t have to watch my back for a while and aliera e kieron oh you great font of wisdom and knowledge oh mighty learner of truth oh what do you want vlad i m kind of busy who handles informers informers i don t understand you know what s going on in south adrilankha right i guess some sort of unrest um okay yeah well there are easterners who are paid to report to the empire on who is doing what how distasteful yes where would these people report oh i m not sure sethra might know although her information is likely out of date that s what i was thinking which is why i thought to ask you first is it important it is to me all right i ll see if i can find out thank you aliera i realized i was hungry but there was nowhere to eat the inns near me were closed and the carts were missing i grumbled to myself and set about ignoring it while i waited for aliera i checked in with a few other clumps one group had heard of an informer being beaten up but it was both arms that were broken another group had heard that someone was throwing rocks at the phoenix guards and it was thought they were paying him to start trouble from still another i learned that he d been imported from norumland wherever that was specifically to infiltrate the rebels most of them didn t have any physical description and the few exceptions could have been describing jules or almost anyone else vlad yes aliera i m listening it isn t certain there are a number of possibilities depending on if the informer is reporting to the guard the army or if it is something the empress want to keep closer to her chin my guess is the latter which means the most likely is a small group that reports only to the empress it s members identifiable by a platinum ring on the middle finger of the left hand i do not know anyone in this group um so i wander around the palace until i meet someone with a platinum ring on the middle finger of his hand oh no they only put the ring on when they need to identify themselves oh so i wander the imperial palace until i meet someone without a platinum ring on the middle finger of his hand i can see some potential problems with this method vlad have you ever had your hair set on fire i think i might be able to do it from here where are you exactly sorry sorry i m a little frustrated i know they meet when they meet on the third floor of the imperial wing in some room tucked into a corner not far from emperor s library the emperor s library just stores old records of some kind and there s not much else around so it may be the quietest part of the palace or at least of the imperial wing that s probably why they chose it okay that s something thank you how did you find out all of this i asked sethra oh i said i wanted to head to the palace and try to deal with that but i also wanted to be close to cawti just in case something happened yes yes i knew she could take care of herself and i also knew that if something happened it was very unlikely i d be able to help forgive me if i m not always 100 rational okay boss rocza can find her and watch her i scowled and thought and scowled then said all right rocza flew off like she knew where she was going maybe she did i took the stone bridge because at this point i didn t want any more trouble with the phoenix guards i d never before been the only person on the bridge and it was a little creepy my sword and my colors were like a pass when leaving the bridge the phoenix guard stationed there didn t like me but didn t stop me once i was in the city i found a meat pastry i moved it from hand to hand until it had cooled a bit then took tiny bites until it had cooled more i wondered if dragaeran tongues burned at a different temperature than human tongues that would be something worth investigating never the approach to the imperial wing takes you past the house of the phoenix and then under a living canopy of ulmas trees that lead up to the broad white steps before the doors i can t tell you how the doors are decorated because i ve never seen them closed although in truth i haven t been in imperial wing often and usually when i went in it was through another entrance like coming from the iorich wing through prisoner s hall loiosh grumblingly slipped into my cloak as i approached the door once inside a teckla in phoenix livery asked my business i thought about saying i was here to pay a visit to my dear friend zerika but thought better of it he d probably heard that line delivered either as a joke or with the intent to convince more times than i d killed people i said baronet vladimir taltos here to beg for an audience with her majesty in fact i wasn t here to beg for an audience or anything else but that was a reasonable response to that question and it wasn t the teckla s business whether i actually got the audience he gave me directions to somewhere i was supposed to go to submit my petition which i d have paid attention to if speaking with the empress was actually my intention so i set off through the halls of the palace filled with people bigger stronger and much much longer lived than me i stroked my mustache because i could forgive me if i don t embarrass myself by telling you how long it took me to find what they called the central stairway i mean if something is the central stairway wouldn t you think it d be somewhere central anyway i found it and managed to do so without accidentally stumbling into the throne room of course that would have been story to tell my grandchildren wouldn t it not that i had very good odds of meeting my grandchildren or having any for that matter and on that morbid note i headed up the stairs i got lucky and found a servant who was able to direct me to the emperor s library as opposed to the imperial library which was entirely different which turned out to be unexpectedly easy to find not seeing anyone wearing a platinum ring i took a moment to duck my head inside it was surprisingly small with one chair a few hundred books on low shelves and a musty smell i left no wiser than when i d entered and looked around the place i was looking for was i d been told near the library i m not sure what i was hoping for exactly that i d stumble across jules that i d find the room and it would be full of dragonlords and i d uh do something i knew i at least wanted to see the place but yeah i had no plan and i didn t find the room either there were several doors in the area and i didn t feel inclined to open them it could be an embarrassing conversation if any of the rooms were occupied especially the one i was looking for so there i was vlad taltos easterner jhereg sort of idly hanging around on the third floor of the imperial wing of the palace just like i belonged there oddly i hadn t felt at all uncomfortable until i formulated it to myself that way then i felt a sudden urge to find the nearest exit as quickly as possible i didn t i mean i was in exactly as much or as little danger as i had been in five seconds ago suddenly realizing my position didn t change that you okay boss yeah i m fine nervous for obvious reasons boss if you have no idea why you re here or what to do and you re nervous being here why don t we leave stubbornness i said i leaned against a wall and tried to look like i belonged the halls were wide the color of copper though they were stone it was an odd choice but weirdly soothing the library was just past a bend in the corridor a long hallway to my left another to my right and a third the way i d come was around a corner behind me there was a constant cool breeze on the back of my neck that gave me goosebumps i could feel loiosh s nervousness reflecting my own i glared back and forth down the hall but it didn t seem apologetic a door opened in the corridor to my right and a teckla dressed in yellow and blue with a disheveled mop of curly red hair and absurdly long legs came out looked at me quickly turned his face away and went walking down the hall okay now i knew which room it was and i could be fairly certain there was some what officer agent whatever inside i was not inclined to meet him but i could wait until he left break in and and what what would i find an empty room would they leave information just lying around seemed unlikely or yes i spent a long time formulating my clever plan and getting all of its moving parts in order in my head say three seconds about ten steps to my left was a glass window i went over and looked out some distance below there seemed to be a small courtyard with no one in it perfect i pulled off my cloak draped the cloak over the window and gave one good hard kick the glass shattered the shards falling into the courtyard where it being empty they had no chance to accidentally kill a dragonlord or something too bad it would be amusing if i were arrested for vandalizing the imperial palace amusing but i hoped to avoid it twenty feet down the hall to the door ready boss i m always ready for this stuff timing will be tricky that s your problem if you had wings yeah yeah okay let s go he climbed out of my cloak and onto my shoulder i took a deep breath another and grabbed the handle flung the door open turned and bolted down the hall to the library as fast as i could i heard yelling just about the time the library door closed behind me i hoped the empress wouldn t pick this moment to decide it was a good time to relax with a trashy novel hee hee i think he may have pissed himself he s standing up now and chasing me with his sword good thing the ceilings are high careful loiosh i got this boss what was he doing when you went in sitting at a table looking through a big stack of papers perfect get him out of the room he s making enough noise that he ll probably attract a guard pretty quickly he s out the door boss heading toward you can you get him turned around i need him out of the line of sight of that room yeah no problem i waited for maybe ten seconds and then clear boss out the door down the hall in the other door clean so far there was a single long table of blond wood with a dozen comfortable looking chairs around it and yes a sheaf of papers in front of one of them found what i was looking for how much time do i have i think some guards are coming not much i rifled through the papers each one had a name at the top another name below an address and notes i didn t have time to read the fifth name down was jules jules dobramil bonta sa rinko far ne jamie s silks e brn w d bot fl there was a lot of writing below that but i didn t have time to read it i guessed i could remember three names maybe four so i noted four at random skipping down to the real names renevesch konrad szeltar hanna toth and maximilian schultz one teckla and three easterners then i got out of there i ran to the stairway as fast as i could then said i m clear loiosh out the window good timing boss here they come will you be okay yeah i ll be fine once i was on the main floor i stopped took a couple of deep breaths and strolled out into the chaos of the palace doing my best to look like i belonged i made my way outside without getting too lost and loiosh came through the canopy of trees and landed on my shoulders piece of shrimp boss if you re going for the old eastern phrase loiosh it s piece of cake i like shrimp better don t i deserve some now that you mention it sure and so do i there was a shrimp fryer not far from my area so we went there got a basket and a cup of lemon butter then walked up to overlook hill found a bench and watched the bay while eating the shrimp it had given us if anyone thought it odd to see a jhereg carefully dipping battered shrimp into butter and delicately eating it while perched next to an armed easterner no one said anything we did get a few stares but they seemed more astonished than hostile so we ignored them then it was time to end the matter i licked my fingers in a dignified manner brushed off my cloak and headed for the stone bridge it was very much the long way both getting there and getting to my destination after but i had nothing better to do of course the address was a problem in the city you can usually find a place if you know the address number 31 on carpenter street is going to be somewhere on carpenter street possibly even between 10 and 50 things aren t that simple in south adrilankha sometimes there are numbers on the house sometimes not sometimes more than one house has the same number and just because that doesn t make things difficult enough some streets have names some don t and some have several names and none of them are marked most of the time you understand that isn t a problem you just say hey bring this to tibor s house and everyone in the neighborhood knows where tibor lives nevertheless it is possible to describe the location of a particular house well enough for someone to find it for one thing south adrilankha like the city itself is divided into districts so far as i know they aren t recognized by any city or county authority but they re pretty rigid for all of that jules was listed as living in an a part of south adrilankha called rinko which my grandfather told me was a corruption of a word in some eastern language that meant apple orchard there was probably an apple orchard somewhere around there at some point so you name the district the part of the district the street if it has a name and the number if it has one whether it does not you can t rely on those as i said so you name a landmark and give a direction and a distinguishing feature of the house in the northeast part of rinko i found a shop with a sign saying...