He heard a scraping noise, then the sound once more. He couldn’t say where it came from.
Hm. Could we be dealing with Crawler?
He opened an instant message window on his computer and sent a message:
To whom? Dragon?
It might be interesting to hear from Dragon again in this Interlude, but I doubt we’d learn anything about her quest to find and talk to Taylor. That’s not something I think she’d tell Colin about at this point, I think.
PHQ.Armsmaster: You have a sec?
Guild.Dragon: Reading the most monotonous data on seismic activity and Behemoth’s possible movements. Ugly code. Distract me, I beg you.
Heh.
It’s interesting that Dragon appears to be considered a member of the Guild before a member of the Protectorate, at least as far as internal IM handles goes.
PHQ.Armsmaster: Hearing something. Can you listen in?
Oh, yeah, that’s a good idea.