I dialed Lisa next.
“Hey, Boardwalk empress,” she answered me.
I prefer to call her a queen, for obvious reasons, but empress is also fitting.
“Tattletale. How’s it coming?”
“It’s not. I’m gathering intel on the enemies in my territory. A few have migrated my way in response to what the rest of you are doing, regrouping.
Ah, I guess that’s the price of waiting – the enemies still think it’s a place they can go.