Editing Promises Promises (section)

==Ministry (sort of) of Foreign Affairs==

There is an invitation to dinner with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.  We go!   Not to the Ministry, to the Minister's house.   (Dunang)  He has met Managaratha in the past, when he was younger. 

He treats us to a lovely dinner, and is a lovely host, and he casually gets lots of details about our backstories without us really noticing.  Hmm.

Having chatted a while, Nesh notices that he seems to be disappointed that we actually are as clueless as we look.

Scout lets slip that Futeau is the traitor - Dunang is surprised to hear that, and Scout asks him to get that to Her Majesty just in case. (Futeau, it turns out, is one of the Queen’s advisors.)  He seems to indicate that he can see to that.

The Minister offers us his seats at the theater. 
We’re in the diplomatic box; it has room for centaurs and the theater is clearly set up for at least some centaur population.

The play is a reasonably interesting opera-y thing.  Not much plot, but the singers are quite talented.  The convention is that the audience is at a social event, and people walk in and out.  Nesh invites the priest of Tam into the box with us.

About ¾ of the way through, there’s a knock on the door.  Nesh answers; there’s a glowing guy that asks if he can come in.  Sai Ko Ti, high priest of Tam, the Summer’s Warmth.  He asks for an evidence packet, since he has not been provided with a copy yet as he is not in the Ministry.  He is curious about what we remember about what happened to people in the Delegation, but it mostly seems to be a social call, rather than an Interrogation.

Scout notes that if we were actively Broken, the Warmth effect would be actively painful, rather than just getting warm.

"Does he do that a lot?"
"*Constantly*."

Gale develops a crush on a singer and sends them a lilac.