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>Go after Annika.
You decide to go visit Annika and try to convince her that you still work for the Craftworld Eldar and redirect her against one of your other enemies instead.
Nicky thinks it is worth a shot, and gives you the address for the hotel Annika is staying at.
You leave the sauna, get your clothes back on, and wash off and reapply some mascara. You figure looking stern and professional is your best bet of being taken seriously.
On the train ride to the hotel, you try to rehearse a plausible story with Namara and Audrey. Step 1 would be convincing Annika that you aren’t one of your evil clones, Step 2 would be getting her to go after one of the HYDRA IX affiliated factions, and Step 3 would be finding ways to deflect questions on where you are staying and how you are making contact with the Eldar.
Suddenly this doesn’t seem like that great an idea anymore...
In the end, the train arrives at your station much sooner than you thought it would, and you decide to just wing it because your plans never work anyways.
Hotel Lestrange is located in the Upper City, a network of platforms suspended over the rest of Coal City so that the upper class don’t have to interact with the lower classes. However, the hotel itself isn’t a particularly good quality establishment by Upper City standards. A small building with an odd mix of architectural styles built around a smoke stack coming up from the lower levels, it seems like the sort of place that attracts those looking for discretion.
Inside though you instantly spot a member of the Upper City Watch in full uniform watching guests in the lobby. Nicky did say there were a few working for Annika. Perhaps they are getting ready to move soon on someone and have given up on discretion.
You decide to simply go right up to her and ask to see Annika. As you do so, you can’t help the officer looks both a little like Kayla and Trish. Which isn’t completely impossible all things considered, but you would imagine the Daughters would have told you if they had an insider in Annika’s group.
It takes surprisingly little effort other than “we are here to see Annika” to get the officer to bring you upstairs to see her.
Annika hasn’t changed much since you last saw her. Same black bodysuit, same dyed red hair, same intense stare.
“It is a long way from Damnatum Lutum...” - Begins Annika. By galactic standards Ravenholm and Damnatum Lutum are actually pretty much neighbors, only 1-3 months apart by Warp even on a low grade ship, but to be fair, very few Imperial citizens travel between worlds.
“I believe you remember who we work for. We will provide some information to you as a gift. Our employers don’t care much for the presence of heretics in this subsector.” - You say. Plausible enough, the Craftworlders have intervened a few times in this region, particularly on Damnatum Lutum.
