Aidan:Why did he contact you and not me?
Declan:Don’t throw a tantrum, Aidan. Just because you’re trying to set yourself as the big boss of everything, lol, it don’t make you president.
Eoghan:Hahahaha.
Aidan:Fuck off, Declan.
Declan:Just calling it how I see it. ;)
Eoghan:I agree. We gotta keep your head from exploding, Aidan.
Aidan:Savannah does that just fine.
Finn:Before this takes us down a rabbit hole none of us want to explore, what happened, Conor? What did Misha have to say?
Me:Lodestar has gone missing. As a result of his rescue attempt, the head of the Moscow Bratva deemed Lyanov’s judgment to be unsound. His men on the ground here are retrieving him from Moscow and are bringing him home to lead, no matter what the Bratva mothership wants.
Me:Misha asked that we support Lyanov’s claim to leadership and because of what he tried to do for Star, I said we would.
Brennan:You had no right to decide that. Not without speaking to us first.
Me:Like you’d consult us if anything jeopardized Camille’s safety. She’s my woman, Brennan.
Brennan:You’ve never met her. You could hate her the minute you set eyes on her. What if she’s catfishing you, for fuck’s sake? I know she ran out on you; doesn’t that tell you she ain’t good people?
Aidan:Brennan, watch it.
Finn:Yeah, you’re out of line.
Brennan:Someone has to think realistically here. I get how you can fall for someone out of nowhere. Jesus Christ, do I understand that. But I’m looking out for us all. Conor too. She’s no good, Kid. She wouldn’t have taken off and run if she gave a shit about you.
Me:You’re entitled to your opinion. I’ll allow her to change it when I bring her home.
Aidan:YOU’RE going? As in, leaving the country?
Me:She needs me.
Brennan:You hate flying.
Me:I don’t.
Eoghan:You’re a shit flyer.
Me:So? I’ll have a couple of whiskeys to take off the edge. It would help if aerodynamicists could decide how planes actually stay in the air.
Declan:You read too much, Conor. That’s always been your problem. Sometimes, you just have to appreciate technology. You don’t have to understand it.
Finn:At the risk of this developing into an argument about aerodynamic lift and how Declan can’t talk when he can wax lyrical for hours about why Mondrian liked squares, WHO is behind Lodestar’s disappearance?
Me:According to Maxim, a guy called Anton Kuznetsov. They attended a party together. She went into the guy’s office and never came back.
Brennan:That sounds really loyal. Attending parties with a guy from the Bratva and going into some fucker’s office AT said party?
Declan:Shut up. Lodestar’s different. She’s ex-CIA and she’s on a mission to annihilate the Sparrows. This ain’t like Camille deciding to swan off at some gala with the Dragon Head of the Triads.
Aidan:If the local Bratva isn’t on Lyanov’s side, then we have no way of helping you get to her, Kid.
Me:I’ll figure it out.