Title: Negotiations
Author: Boomeraang
Word Count: 281
Challenge: #71--Tangible
Part one of the two parter.
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"So I hear the Dai Li is still loyal to you?"
A seductive voice came through the barred window, light streamed through.
A heavy key turned in his prison door and a girl maybe half his age, maybe more than half his age swung it open.
He stood, brow creased and looked her over; recognizing the face momentarily. Not well, but enough to know they were on the same side.
"You would be getting this information from where?"
She threw back her head. "You doubt my resourcefulness Long Feng."
She was attractive, cockily attractive, to anyone else perhaps scarily attractive. Long Feng decided to go along with it anyway.
"And how can Ba Sing Se serve you today, daughter of the fire lord?"
"I need something. Something tangible. Something I can use against the earth king."
The corner of her mouth went up in a smirk. His followed suit.
"That would be considered treason, surely you know that."
"Your speciality I hear." She said again as if they were playing a game, although knowing what the eventual outcome would be.
"Something tangible..." he thought aloud, playing along "you are aware that all my correspondence was taken as palace property."
"I'm sure the fire lord would value any information you could give."
"And I'm sure there will be... compensations..."
Azula looked behind her. She'd been known to do a few things she didn't like to get her way. Mai or Ty Lee could always take over later.
She ran a sharp fingernail over the fabric of his sleeve. "Surely there will..." she purred and then her voice snapped back to hard and commanding. "Surely there will."