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Rakitin stared at Liadov, his stomach clenched into a ball of ice.

Slowly, as he studied Nika's expression, he realized something.

Someone was striking derision and a wall of cold rejection, someone was where they weren't wanted, and it wasn't Polya.

How strange.

In the wash of relief and something else (acceptance? No, that was absurd), he felt an undercurrent of sympathy for the supply captain.

For the first time, it occured to him that he could play along.

Polya looked met Utrov's eyes and smiled a little, shyly.

The secret was shared, after all.

"You know, I think he does."

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“Ach, yes.” Johann found himself smiling now, nodding as his plan took tangible form, and he dropped the soaked napkin into his tea cup with a wet plop.

Motte traveled well. Slept most of the time, cozy in her crate.

Documents were easy enough to forge. Passports and papers and photos.

Germany was beautiful in the spring.

Pilots were in short supply though, and difficult to convince.

“Some things never change.” He drawled with a grin, and his firmament blue eyes flickered briefly to the table where flamethrower wielding lunatics sat gathered in a neat row.

Krauss was one of the things that remained a constant. A friendly parasite: a smiling, laughing remora, a leach with an impeccable taste for the finest, rarest types of blood, a vulture groomed smooth and sleek, with scantly a feather out of place.

The smile drained from his face at once, as Lynx’s brow arched like a curious caterpillar, and the meaning of his words became abundantly clear.

“Ahh. Well. How lovely. I shall surely look forward to the visit then.”

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Alexei snorted brusquely.

"He may think he's going to punish you, and no one knows better than me how much you deserve it."

Lynx's eyes locked onto the German's, neutral and intractable.

"But when it comes down to it, everybody needs a scoundrel."

He swallowed the last of his tea.

"Don't they?" he finished, rheotorically, narrowing his eyes.