Lord Blackwood's operative Sera delivered the intelligence that changed everything on the morning of the third day after the cellar meeting.
She appeared at Blackwood's estate during the lord's habitual pre-dawn walk through his gardens ...a routine he maintained regardless of weather or circumstance, partly for health and partly because the garden's winding paths, bordered by high hedges and dense plantings, offered the only truly private space on his property where a conversation could be conducted with absolute certainty of not being overheard.
Sera fell into step beside him, dressed as a servant delivering morning provisions, her basket of bread and cheese providing perfectly mundane justification for her presence.
"The drop point," she said without preamble. "Ashmark Holdings. I got in three nights running. Applied the compound to every document that passed through. The mirror copies are in the dead drop at the chandler's shop."
