“How about her close friend, Naliyah?”

“No…” Liaena muttered after a moments pause where she considered Sharons proposal. “…I don’t want to do that to her. None of this is her fault”

The girl did not respond to Sharons remarks initially about a lone attack on the mansion and the likely futility thereof, still rapidly running through the options for the Rithrynn Situation in her head. 
“I can deal with her. I’ll can sort it so Serphia doesn’t realise where she’s gone, and then I can….go and get Marshall. I might even have someone who’d be able to tell me what he did to her – if she’s feeling more cooperative this time, anyway”

“…”

“Oh. Yes. I’ve got an assassin” Liaena added out of nowhere. In response to the weird look Sharon gave her, she felt around in her satchel until she pulled out the sock containing Astrid and plopped it on the desk, the sock jumping around angrily again after the little human tried to fight her way out of the material. “I made a deal that I’d release her after all of this was over, so now I’m stuck with her. I’m not sure what to do with her now though…she’s annoying to have to carry around the whole time”

“…Would that be the assassin that the elves were searching for all night?”

“No. I don’t have that one anymore” the girl said absently. As far as Liaena was concerned, her mind had clearly already moved on to more important matters than simply the whereabouts of tiny, angry mercenaries she might potentially be carrying in her hand luggage. “The White Hand have a rivalry with the Red Vanguard. I think we could get the Red Vanguard on side easily if they got to take out the guy bank-rolling the lot that are taking over their jobs. Although there’s more people than Sherpa involved in this. There’s a guy called Jamie Lasher that he’s staying with. I’d not heard of him”