While Oleg isn't pleased by Sampo's assessment about the integrity of Wildfire-- no one would be happy to hear that their organization had been infiltrated by outside agents-- it's the only logical reason why they could go searching for these smugglers time and time again and keep coming up empty handed. He has to accept it, even if he doesn't like it. It'll be a difficult thing, trying to locate the infiltrators and purge them from Wildfire, but it'll be necessary for this whole operation to continue without interference. Oleg will have his work cut out for him.
The good captain, as one might expect, has no experience with Rivet Town; hardly surprising considering that the Underworld had been cut off from him for over a decade and Rivet Town has been abandoned for years besides. Additionally, he's difficult to disguise because of those distinguished Landau features and his own inability to be anybody but Gepard Landau, Silvermane Guard Captain. Man... what a terrible partner to have for an infiltration. Not subtle at all.
So he can't say he's surprised at what Gepard asks of him. He sees where this is going, and it's not... It's not the wrong thing to do, necessarily. Is it what Sampo really wants to do? Not really, it's asking him to go into enemy territory as a forward scout, trying to locate their base of operations. Something like that is a risky proposition, and getting caught means one of two things: either Sampo disappears and meets the same fate as all those other victims, or they kill him outright to keep him silent.
Sampo likes being alive and free, as most people do.
He looks sidelong at Gepard for a moment, out of the corner of his eye-- then smiles, all light and easy.
"Of course I do, your ol' friend Sampo's been all over. Thinking of sending me in, Captain?"
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Date: 2023-08-03 06:16 pm (UTC)The good captain, as one might expect, has no experience with Rivet Town; hardly surprising considering that the Underworld had been cut off from him for over a decade and Rivet Town has been abandoned for years besides. Additionally, he's difficult to disguise because of those distinguished Landau features and his own inability to be anybody but Gepard Landau, Silvermane Guard Captain. Man... what a terrible partner to have for an infiltration. Not subtle at all.
So he can't say he's surprised at what Gepard asks of him. He sees where this is going, and it's not... It's not the wrong thing to do, necessarily. Is it what Sampo really wants to do? Not really, it's asking him to go into enemy territory as a forward scout, trying to locate their base of operations. Something like that is a risky proposition, and getting caught means one of two things: either Sampo disappears and meets the same fate as all those other victims, or they kill him outright to keep him silent.
Sampo likes being alive and free, as most people do.
He looks sidelong at Gepard for a moment, out of the corner of his eye-- then smiles, all light and easy.
"Of course I do, your ol' friend Sampo's been all over. Thinking of sending me in, Captain?"