Category: Oliver

Grandmissar So, alive.  Would you like to name her or shall I?     Commiserate She nods agreement, pauses. “Is that an endorsement or a condemnation of Usher?”      Recruiters “Though it sounds like...

Grandmissar I imagine Marissa to be aged about 18 in Dominion reckoning, and Oliver’s grandmother would be aged 27 or so, perhaps a bit older.  Alive then, I think?     Commiserate “Consistent with my...

“That competency test you mentioned, my own results were strong for Operations, but my Commissariat score was high enough that they tried hard to get me to request a change of class. She briefly...

Concourse Café “Cadmon and I always got on well, and he seems decent for a Commissar.  It’s not surprising he’d recognise your name.” She checks herself, “I shouldn’t say that, as you know, your...

“Anything you’d like to tell me about that meeting?”   

To the first part of his response she says, “you are not alone in that.” To the second, “Usher didn’t say much at all, reached out via a message, said he’d met you and...

“I guess they would.” Marissa Starr looks down at her coffee, a rare event across Oliver’s whole lifetime that his mother has not made direct eye contact with him while they have been talking....

She nods, “possible, if not likely.  I know if I had to investigate the Vizierate I wouldn’t want them finding out about it.”   

She nods, again allowing the silence to hang for a bit. “I’m not sure, if I did suspect something amiss within the Vizierate, that I would trust the investigation to the Public Safety Office. ...

That gives her pause and she takes some time to consider the question before responding.  “The answer is ‘no, but’, as in ‘no, that’s not something that I’ve ever heard of’, or even considered,...