"And those fellows, they're honest?"

"Girls. They walk the street just going about their normal business and you can buy from them when you see them. You can tell them by the peach-colored lining on their faldetta."

"Aha! Thank you."

"Can I buy you a drink?"

Zoe looks over at Anita. "Is there time for one? He's been very helpful."

"Sure, we're in no rush."

Perhaps the monkey won't be connected with the drugs after all. Instead there are two girls being flirted with and also, a couple feet away, some bored self-conscious fellow trying to look dignified with a monkey.

Zoe smiles and chats about nothing in particular with the guy over a gin rickey.

Araari is going to ask if she can maybe have the warding stone for a bit please? She’s been thinking about how the village was watching her whenever she wasn’t with the stone and she isn’t a fan of that.

Yeah, Araari can hold onto it for a bit. She needs it more than Zoe.

Thank you, Zoe.

The next morning--

"So as far as I can tell buying nectar doesn't actually help us any? I guess we could tail one of the Faldetta Peaches and see if they lead us to anyone higher up the food chain. Might take a while for them to make contact again, though."

“We have an address for the warehouse, if that might be useful. It is supposedly storing textiles, but...”

"Probably we want to tail some women in peach hoods before we break into the warehouse."

Nod. “Probably a good idea.”

"A couple of the girls should tail them, specifically. I think they're more likely to notice a foreign man trying to follow them home."

"Magnificence could probably tail them without being too conspicuous."

"If we could get him to understand that's what we even wanted him to do, which isn't impossible but is a gamble."

"Anemone used to tell him to go do stuff like that all the time. It's worth a shot."

"We could check out the warehouse too today, I suppose, without breaking in? Or look up any new names you found. Or spend more time in the records if there's anything we feel we overlooked."

Magnificence can TOTALLY follow people in peach hoods and see where they go. He gives a little salute.

GOOD monkey.

“I’m—better than average, at being quiet? I could go if we want more people than just Magnificence to go. Magnificence on his own might be less conspicuous, though. Peter Lukas is a new name, he ships textiles, I thought it was nothing until I saw that textiles are the cover story for the warehouse. And it might be worth looking again at the newspapers to see if there’s anything we missed.”

"Possibly we should split up and all follow people and see who happens to meet with someone? We've definitely gotta avoid engaging, though. Or, not all of us, but several of us. People who think they can pull that off."

"We didn't find anything in the newspaper archives but it's worth another try."