Day 54
Standard Year 1393

Solcintra
Liad

In which the counter-attack on the Department begins.

Dramatic revelation: Commander of Agents has a name! Presumably it was Val Con who provided that detail; I wonder if that means he had a habit of sticking his nose where it wasn’t wanted even as a loyal Agent of the Department, because somehow I can’t imagine the Commander making a habit of introducing himself to his subordinates.

And now that name has been broadcast over Solcintra on an open wavelength, along with the information that his Department exists and claims to speak for Liad. Likely the attitude that this is an absurdity produced by an addled Terran will be a common one, but even so it’s a crack in the Department’s veil of secrecy. And it serves notice to the Department, because they’ll know who must have put Higdon’s Howlers up to this. (Even more so, if I’m right about the Commander’s name being a secret kept even from his own agents.)

Once again, the day matches the chapter number. I don’t expect that to continue any further, though; things have started moving fast, and I doubt events are going to wait a whole day to find out what happens next.