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• Author: T. Kingfisher
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BREAKING into the Bishop of the White Rat’s office was far more trouble
than it had any right to be, and Marguerite was a bit annoyed by it.
To start with, the room where the Bishop saw petitioners was not
actually her private office but a suite of rooms set aside specifically for that
task, so Marguerite spent three days staking out the wrong room entirely.

Secondly, her actual private office did not have windows, but instead a
series of ventilation slits that could not have been infiltrated by anything
larger than a ferret. (Not that Marguerite wanted to break into a third story
office from outside. She had done such things before, but they did not rank
among her fondest memories.) Thirdly, the only way to reach the office was
to go through the offices of a whole cadre of staff, all of which were
fanatically loyal and most of whom worked late.

All of these issues might have been surmountable, if Marguerite could
have, say, bribed the cleaning staff, but even that proved difficult. The
Temple of the White Rat solved problems. That was their god’s entire
purview. They were staffed with lawyers, social workers, healers, and
organizers.

Apparently one of the problems they had solved was bribery. You
couldn’t bribe a Rat-priest. (Well, you probably could, but only by offering
to donate the money to the poor.) They were all genuinely good people who
wanted to make the world a better place, and how obnoxious was that? You
might be able to blackmail one, but Marguerite suspected that the Bishop
already knew exactly who had skeletons in their closet and had taken steps
to quietly remove the skeleton and brick up the closet door for good
measure.

The general cleaning staff was made primarily of people fleeing terrible
domestic situations, who were given a place to stay, food, and a wage as
long as they needed it, and not even Marguerite was enough of a monster to
try to blackmail one of those wounded souls. And the Bishop’s private
offices were cleaned by the head of Housekeeping himself, who felt that no
one else on earth could be trusted to clean the Bishop’s desk without
muddling her papers, and who would have cheerfully slit his own throat if
he thought it would make the Bishop’s life easier.

Really, it was enough to give an honest spy heartburn.
After examining the problem from all angles, including the roof of the
nearest building outside the temple compound, Marguerite gave up on her
initial approach. She’d hoped to rummage through the Bishop’s files first,
but it looked like she was going in cold and hoping for the best.

Her next thought was to break into the Bishop’s bedroom, but that
proved equally fruitless. The Bishop had a perfectly normal suite of rooms,
guarded by an anteroom full of old women who sat in rocking chairs,
knitted and played cards. They were delighted to see visitors, they were
happy to chat for hours about their grandchildren, and they would not let a
stranger inside the Bishop’s door for love or money. You couldn’t out-argue
them and you couldn’t outlast them. If you tried,

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