Saturday, December 18, 2004

Fallout: some of the failures of the third mission

From: ICC branch office, North America Branch, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
To: ICC branch office, Pacific Branch, Okinawa, Japan
Regarding: Visitors

Rachel,
There's good news and bad news. You'll want some privacy for this.

The Good News: our visitors have left, fully satisfied. They found their traitor and recovered the artifact, a katana. Considering everything that went on, it was almost certainly a Nakamura blade. Civilian casualties were surprisingly moderate. Ten members of assorted security organizations and four others who may or may mot be missed.

The Bad News: we figured out who the traitor was. When they tried to identify the body they used finger print and dental records. His real name was Yoshi Amassu. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm so very sorry.
From what we can tell, he was trying to raise money to slip back into hiding by auctioning off the blade. He'd hired some local security people to keep an eye out for agents like the ones who came. Unfortunately they were overly ambitious and were killed by our own agents escorting the visitors. We can only guess what your father was planning to do once he was back in hiding, or even why he took the blade in the first place, but I felt that I should be the one to tell you. I'm sorry I couldn't tell you this in person, or even over a phone line. If you need anything let me know. Once again, I'm sorry.
Robert
Robert Lawson
North American region director