[i]Two days later...[/i]

Canek's orders were a bit hard to swallow. Well, orders was a bold statement. His enforced request, he called it. They needed to get in close with the Pasha, in order to gather what Canek had called them to get. Initially Neil had volunteered to go in and infiltrate. He'd performed missions of this sort before. He was not as combat effective as Junebug, but he did have a penchant for getting in and out of places he wasn't wanted. 

But Canek wanted no screw up. They needed a...consented infiltration. He laid out his plan, amusing Junebug and having the exact opposite effect on Neil. He didn't feel comfortable for Junebug or Taya masquerading as a harem girl, covert or not. Taya because he was protective of her, and Junebug because... well, you do the math. They hadn't talked about Neil's confession from a few nights ago, and though he wanted to find closure on it, he'd just started to pretend it never happened. Better to bottle stuff up, right? Just like his dad said. 

Still, he was glad that Junebug had volunteered. He didn't think Taya would have the stomach for it, and he remembered when Junebug had killed a man and moaned over his dead body to fool his friends. He knew she could at leas take care of herself. She had a comm on her, linked directly to Neil who took point on a slug rifle on a rooftop, and the Highlander. Saxon did not know the spirit of the mission, only that there was a mission. Once they told him it was a covert op, he was not interested regardless. 

Good, the last thing they needed was Saxon to rip apart half of the settlement. 

Neil lay atop a three story building, one of the few structures over 20 feet in height in the entire city, save for a beacon tower, an expensive inn, and the Pasha's house that Junebug was now infiltrating. He made sure his gun was loaded, and on the sights he could see one of Canek's men guiding Junebug to the entrance wrapped in cloth, posing as if to sell her. 

There was a quick exchange of words, before she was roughly handed over. 

"In position," Neil said on the comm, his voice now reverberating in Junebug's ear. "Status?"
[@Penny]