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8 Double game- The truth is hidden in the shadows

Double game- The truth is hidden in the shadows

* Present - Archades 706 Alto Valendiano *

After the umpteenth provocation by Judge Drace, Chantal was limited to throwing a look full of hatred to that woman, who could not stand it.

The girl always had the impression that Drace always looked down on her every time he met her.

That woman had never liked Chantal, and what she could perceive was not a good thought. Yet they were among the few women to hold two typically male positions.

Gabranth's assistant had the impression that Drace was keeping an eye on her and waited for a misstep in order to put her in trouble. That split between the two, Chantal already took into account that surely Gabranth would take it again for his lack of respect for Drace.

She would not have liked it, but it was stronger than her to respond irreverently to certain people who were indigestible.

Drace had suspicions about Chantal, especially because she was certain that the girl's face was somehow familiar to her, but she did not remember where and when she had known him.

Chantal looked at the woman with a certain contempt again and with an excuse tried to get away from her, she had a few free hours, since the training with Gabranth was skipped and consequently the various commitments related to him, certainly had no I want to waste precious time fighting with Drace. He also knew that later in the afternoon Gabranth would make him recover his training, so he had to be ready.

That morning, Chantal had found Gabranth more strange and nervous than usual, and even had not been able to understand even reading the thoughts and emotions of the judge what was the motive unleashed by those emotions.

The girl had been very upset and clearly felt that something was wrong.

In the last hours of that morning, Chantal had done nothing but receive information and reports concerning Dalmasca, it had been for her an effort to read and all those news concerning her former homeland of which she had no good memory.

But work was a job and Chantal had to do her duty. He hoped that there might be something useful among those news, but all of them more or less reported the same news, the Resistance attack on the royal palace during the banquet in honor of Vayne.

Although Chantal worked in the ninth section of the Empire, very often and more than willingly avoided all the news that in the last two years concerned Dalmasca passing the reading of this information to other assistants of Gabranth.

It was now known to Gabranth, the hatred that his personal assistant had for Dalmasca but nonetheless took up very often when he noticed that the girl was not informed about the latest news about the Dalmasca and its situation, in the last two years the dalmasca population He had created many problems, above all because he suspected that opponents were hiding among themselves and Gabranth had the task of discovering and possibly suppressing these rebels.

Leaving Judge Drace behind him, Chantal headed for the offices of the ninth division, where she had been charged with taking the latest reports concerning news from various informants who had returned to Archades for several days to report.

After about ten minutes walking through the various corridors of the imperial palace, Chantal finally found himself in the offices of the ninth division, some people who worked there seeing her greeted her and the girl returned the greeting.

After a few meters, Chantal found herself in a room in which they found the reports that the various informants had to give her. The reports had already been delivered a few hours before, and the girl had only to pick them up, they were in a large shelf divided by order of importance.