#aldette

Miss Taryn Lee has joined us. Her information network in Ul’dah will prove doubly vital with our relocation. I have been passing her my own informants since she will be located in Ul’dah, leaving me to focus on Duskwatch. In return, we have unlimited access to her information, so long as she maintains full operational control of her assets. A tough negotiation that benefits us both. I remain greatly intrigued by her.

Miss Sage Akhlys is an oddity. A blind lalafel who poisoned Lady Nightweave to prove her deadliness and also her willingness to serve by providing the antidote and the identification of who had sent her to kill Saterra. Not the greatest of a beginning business relationship, but I can make it work. I told her in no uncertain terms that while I understand her desire to join a network that would allow her to advance, in contrast to the Alarcon, she will have to do much to win our trust. But, is this not how all such associations begin? She merely has further to climb. Her skills with poison are invaluable, and I’ll use her as I can.

Miss Holly Souther was a surprise. Someone I’d met in Kugane a year back only to see her walk into our establishment seeking work. She will join security, and her ties to the Rogues’ Guild in Limsa will prove especially useful with our move. I’m entertained that she perhaps thinks there’s a romance between Evaleigh and myself, based on our games. With so many strands cast about for this web, it’s easy to lose sight of the center to which they connect.

Miss Xayah Katsuna was among us last year, young and inexperienced. She returns as a mercantile paragon all her own, composed and confident. She is leasing us the building in Limsa, previously her mansion. We’d offered to buy it, but she likes the status of owning property in various great cities. She’s agreed to allow me to train her in elicitation and perhaps even red magic, but it’s clear to me that her mercantile efforts as a clothing designer and manufacturer come first. She wishes to use Saterra’s holdings as her primary conduit into Ul’dah’s markets. A win-win.

J’vhex is rather quiet, but Saterra and Veloce speak highly of him. he’s been placed in security, and I’ll make it a point to meet with him. He proved decisive when necessary when we’d investigated a haunting on a ship in which Saterra had bought a share for transport her goods to and from the East. He is clever, a valuable trait. As our security join the ranks of operatives, we will value perception, alertness, discretion, and initiative in our sentinels.

Lady Aldette Drauteur is one I have no handle on at the moment. She is a Gridanian elezen, which I’m warned are a maddening lot for their impetuousness, but she seemed quite content in our garden playing with a chocobo chick. She has agreed to provision us as a hunter, as she seems skilled with the bow. Veloce had labeled her as a woman of refinement, and I admit to being out of sorts on whether her role with us would grow. I should visit with her more. It seems she and Veloce are...rivals of sorts. Could it be because this woman is the only one I’ve seen taller than the Ishgardian?