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You manage to <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">successfully</span></span> create a distraction in the restaurant.
<span class="mu-r">“What's all this? Who sent us all this food! I did not order this.”</span>
“Aww, come on honey- they love you! I think it's cute.”
<span class="mu-r">”Are these even Jaxtian grubs in this soup? I heard they're imported from Andoen.”</span>
“...Are you really criticizing free food? YOU of all people?”
<span class="mu-r">”Don't you find this a little suspicious?”</span>
“Suspicious? Did you find it suspicious when that nice man paid your transport fare the other day? Or giving you the right of way on the jump pole? You're an Enforcer dear, you make people feel safe.”
<span class="mu-r">”...I guess so...”</span>
And with a that, you take an odd moment to slide out of the resultant, unobserved. It has now officially been a week since you began stalking the Enforcer, and you feel you are prepared for whatever test you have brought upon yourself. Your disguise is no longer useful- though you can't grow your mane back that quickly.
It's difficult to say, exactly, what the point of this exercise was. You learned a lot about Mitel. You know where he leaves, his family, his habits, his voice- but you are trying to think what your instructor meant by the value of a life. Mitel seems a valuable member of the Hegemony- reliable and stable. Is this a test to detect some hidden potential in him the Hegemony already knows about, a skill highly desired by Supreme Rulers- to see the true value in people, or is it something else? How he fits into the social fabric as a whole? The otherwise mundane and even banal concerns of a man who, to most in the Hegemony, is a privileged and empowered elite?
