"Should we ask for a deck of cards or sothing?" Nina asked while resting her head on the table in the conference room they were placed in. The others were sent to other areas of the ship. Seems they wanted to keep them separated from the other foreign guests.
Nina had pulled her vocal device from her purse and was using it to speak. She kept it in her purse because she did not want to bother speaking before. But now that it was just the two of them it would have been more botherso to continue making hand signals with her hands.
"You can ask for them. Just rember the guards at the door are a bit jumpy." Jace reminded her. He tapped his watch communicator as he received a stream of encrypted lines from the Judas. He quickly began translating the ssage.
"So what's the ssage from the Judas?" Nina grumbled. She saw him sending an encrypted ssage earlier when they first arrived in this room. He was asking about the Judas' status and giving them an update about his own status.
Jace sighed as he read the ssage and quickly began sending a response. "Captain Arthur, that is the captain of the Judas, is a few days away. He understands the situation but the Inquisitor is attempting to countermand my order. Apparently he wants to bring a fleet of ships in to attack the Union. This is going to be annoying."
"You think the Inquisitor will go around you?" Nina asked with a chuckle.
"Definitely, I read his file. He is eager to prove himself to the first prince, his sponsor." Jace explained as he sent out his ssage. "Seems I am going to have to make people understand that being a Spectre actually ans sothing." He then quickly sent another ssage before putting his watch communicator in dormant mode again.
Nina sighed and wrapped her knuckles against the table a few tis before standing up. She walked over to the door and opened it up. Jace could see the guards in Infantry armor flinch in surprise. "Can you grab so playing cards for us? We need sothing to pass the ti."
One of the guards instantly responded almost on instinct, "Hexa style or four kings style?" Almost as if it was an automated response. The other guard glanced at Jace's companion and then glanced at the other guard.
"Four kings style. It is far more versatile. Thank you!" Nina then closed the door and walked back to her seat next to Jace.
"That's debatable." Jace told her as he relaxed in his seat. He would get a response to his ssage in about half a day. So there was no reason to fret over it.
"Debatable? What's debatable?"
"Calling Four kings style playing cards more versatile." Jace answered.
"Well it is, it has far more history attached to it. Therefore it has far more variations and types." Nina pointed out.
"But Hexa has far more cards, so it can be used for so variations that four kings can't be used for. Not to ntion it can include more players and lessen the odds for card counting." Jace teased her back.
"Well-"
They both stopped talking and looked at the doorway as it opened up. Trentwood was standing there. But this ti he was wearing a uniform instead of the Commando armor variation he had on before.
Trentwood waved at them nonchalantly as he walked in, "hello there!"
"Hello there?" Nina mimicked causing the man to glance at her in surprise. "You realize you are not just a terrorist but also a traitor to our nation and all you can say is 'hello there'?" Nina scoffed and leaned back in her chair. Amusingly enough she crossed her arms and caused her small amount of cleavage to beco more pronounced, but Jace doubted she did it on purpose.
Trentwood was montarily distracted as he glanced at her cleavage before he cleared his throat and walked fully into the room with the door closing behind him. "Well, I have no issue with you two. From what I am aware, neither of you have abused your power or position. Not to ntion you co from commoner backgrounds. Besides I doubt you two actually have much issue with
either."
Trentwood looked between the two of them. Nina looked at Jace and Jace just shrugged. So Nina leaned back and relaxed.
"Eh?" Nina stretched her arms above her head, "hey we getting food or what? We did not get a chance to chow down on those munchies at the party." Nina asked as her stretching caused cleavage to beco pronounced again.
Trentwood stared for a mont at her breasts before he looked at Jace. Jace was looking at Trentwood with an expression of disgust and shook his head. He was more than twice her age. How shaful.
Trentwood scratched the back of his head, "yeah, I am having so food brought to you. Along with so drinks and those playing cards that Miss Diaz requested. I hope you do not mind if I join you. I wanted to hear about Fenrir and Dakota, well at least as much as you can tell ."
Jace shook his head and waved at a chair. "We can share a bit but like you said we cannot talk about it too much."
"I am surprised you were not going to poke around for information." Nina pointed out as the man sat down.
"Ehh… I considered it but then I realized that I would be playing with fire. Just as I would get information out of you, there was also a good chance you would be able to get information out of ." Trentwood answered with a chuckle. "You are experienced interrogators, although I have heard that Mister Steel here has a rather bloody track record."
Jace shrugged, "you wanted to ask about Dakota and Fenrir?"
"I wanted to hear stories about them." Trentwood smiled back at Jace with a nod of his head.
Jace went to start when the door opened. A guard in Infantry armor walked in, pushing a tal cart with food and drinks from what he could see from his sitting position. The food was on tal trays with tal covers. The drinks consisted of orange juice, applejuice , and so type of red juice. As well as a few different alcohols. The last thing that was placed on the table by the guard was a deck of cards.
Nina grabbed the cards while the tray of food was pushed in front of her and uncovered. "What do you think? Poker? Blackjack? Or sothing else?"
"We are going to be talking for a minute so let's start off with sothing simple." Jace told her as he took a whiff of the uncooked at and cold rice that was on his plate. "Do you guys have actual chefs aboard?"
"Focus." Trentwood told him.
"Right, let's start off with Dakota." Jace told him and then began talking about his ti in the academy. He started off by discussing Dakota's harsh training schedule and annoying habits. Then he went to talk about his and Dakota's still ongoing prank war.
Trentwood in turn talked about his ti in the military with Dakota as well as how they had constantly pranked each other to the point it beca dangerous and they had to stop. He talked about his comrades and how the only ti his unit suffered casualties was when a noble in a military position gave a nonsensical order.
Apparently it happened quite often. It was much better now. But nobles used to be able trigger border skirmishes just because of an argunt or disagreent. Sotis they would even do it because of a grudge.
Nowadays that was impossible. Originally the Inquisitors would be the reason to prevent foolish mistakes like that from happening. But the Inquisitors' relevance lost aning over ti when they managed to obtain high speed long range communication thods. Eventually, around fifteen years ago, they also beca in charge of investigating corruption and military cris.
Trentwood had left the military and even the empire at that point and ti. But from what he heard the impact was imdiate as a different form of corruption began taking route. Since it was not just the emperor appointing Inquisitors, so nobles began taking up the position. They took paynts for coverups, or they actively committed cris and used their position to get away with it.
Trentwood explained that hearing about that was the mont that he realized the empire was irredeemable. But he was hoping that the new intelligence organization that Fenrir was in charge of would not end up the sa way.
They talked for several hours. Fortunately neither of them shared anything important to current events. They Just talked about the past. They even heard so embarrassing stories about Fenrir, Dakota, as well as the emperor.
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