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(A reminder that this information is OOC to all save those involved in any incidents mentioned below, and yes Kiran, you may repost it on the other board if you wish.)

Railen sat at home, going over the books, running her fingers through her hair. Profits were up a little this week, however so were costs.

She received a message from Suzy Fairweather that once again Cove, and one of her staff had suffered an attack at the hands of mysterious Thugs. This time the Minstrel had been captured and beaten, and Captain Grayner had to pay a handsome randsom to get her back. Captain Grayner and Recruit Bersi had been attacked in the incident. The report said a man came into the Goblin, injured. He had been a decoy in their plot.

This after receiving a visit at the Goblin from Jierdan, whos attention to Ryan, was more than a little unsettling. She had passed Ryan to Anna and asked that she get the babe to safety and tell Hoagie she could use him in the Goblin, as at the time she was alone with him and a Vesparian woman she did not know well. Both were dressed in all black as the earlier reports of the Thugs who attacked had been dressed.  Apparently the woman was a Davion according to Jierdan- who was quick to turn her over to the Covian Army, and the Guards asked her to leave. Railen was the least worried about this woman. It was Jierdan she did not trust.

Last eve she had given Kiran notice. It was not pleasent, and he was angry at being ousted from his position at the Goblin. She had tried to be gentle as she could. Everything she told him had been the truth...or at least part of it. He had after all given great contributions to the Goblin and its care, and had given her a job when times were tough. He knew what it took to bring in customers. He was a good bookkeeper, though rumors of him skimming profits from Swaggers had her worried about what he might be pocketing for himself. It was time for her to prove herself, and with Kiran taking over everything all the time, she would never be able to do that.

It was the meetings that took place upstairs she worried about. Rumors still circulated that Kiran was behind the Mill Incident. She remembered overhearing Kiran discussing framing Kas with Becca in the basement as she was retreiving a bottle of wine from the cellar. She remembered too the loose board in the stable...and cursed the day she had found the notes. She had kept her mouth shut about them and many bits and pieces she had over heard. Safer that way for her to continue living, she had thought. What other tricks did the old man have up his sleeve? She wondered...not really wanting to find out first hand.

The day Kiran was hired to help out by Penny, Railen had hired someone to keep watch over him. Reports came to her regularly, in secret, of nefarious goings on involving a group of thugs led by a man named "Smith." She had met a "Smith" at Swaggers. The too tight handshake, and threatening looks he gave her were enough for her to be concerned for the safety of her staff and herself. New reports of Kiran loosing his position of leadership of a secret underground association to Jierdan had her worried as well. Kiran would struggle to hold as much power as he could. Finding that most, if not all of her bouncers worked for Kiran in secret was not something she had wanted to hear. Most of them had not been around in the evenings, and had been oddly absent recently when the attacks had occured.

She was certain he would try to make his move to run the Goblin soon. He warned her that her tax payment would be due soon, as he left his apron on the counter. " What is the ammount due?" she had asked.

"As much as I wish it to be." was his curt reply as he left the building.