>>5731008>>5730940>>5730759>>5730736>>5730697“Take me to Roth.”
Halle does as you command, after regretfully replacing her Amulet of Invisibility and allowing the masculine, humanoid disguise supplant her own features once more. As you await her attunement and transformation with growing impatience, you consider the situation. A half dozen of these mutagenic grub-things have already been released. Can they reproduce. How much damage can they do? Halle said it was too late, but if that were really true, wouldn’t releasing just one be enough, rather than… However many they have released, as well as however many are left? Even if ALL of them were to be released, surely the Priesthood is smart enough to know that this wouldn’t be enough to defeat humanity.
“It isn’t about eradicating the species,” Albacete suggests, when you speak some of these thoughts aloud. “It is about weakening Hawksong’s claims to righteousness, their reputation as a guarantor of safety from dark forces.”
“OUR forces,” Halle notes, still evidently a little miffed to help undo her own work.
Still, she leads you to the rendezvous point where, as she tells it, Roth has produced and distributed the chimeric larvae to small groups of Infiltrators.
In keeping with your original plan, you make no effort to hide yourself, instead letting the Silkscale Infiltrator lead you and Albacete directly to the place. You find two others waiting there already—male, at least outwardly, though also obviously disguised. They watch you warily, though as you each lift your Amulets of Disguise upon your chains, and they do likewise, a sense of ease returns. Wearing a provided cloak over your fine armour, they do not take you for Prince Long Wang but simply another Infiltrator hidden behind a thin veneer of acceptably-human foreignness.
