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[personal profile] nonvoting 2026-02-20 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ it is, as a matter of certain fact, fucking insane for tseng to be sitting here right now.

keeping tabs on dan heng had been an assignment, orders from heidegger to make sure he had an eye on one of the world's very last vidyadhara. he was supposed to watch her streams just to make sure that the turks knew what she was up to, but he was never told to engage. to be fair, for the first couple of months he hadn't—he had watched every broadcast but never typed a word, only observed dan heng's behavior, analyzed her words, monitored her activities as best he could.

it wasn't tseng's fault that she was exactly his type: lithe, slender, dark-haired and bright-eyed. he had tried not to notice her body, how every inch of her seemed designed to tempt him. but how was he supposed to notice anything else when his job was to watch dan heng make herself come on stream night after night? tseng is very, very good at his job, but he's also just a man.

so, here he is. off the clock, having told no one where he's intending to be, sitting in the lobby bar of an upscale sector two hotel. he's dressed well: a neatly-tailored dark blue suit with a pale grey shirt, no tie, collar undone at the top button. it had seemed like too much at first, but when he turns at the sound of a voice tseng is immediately glad he hadn't changed his mind. ]


You made it. [ she's somehow prettier in person. oh, this is so fucking stupid. ] Have a seat. Can I get you something to drink?

[ that had been the agreement, after all. dan heng would show up, and if tseng wasn't her type they would have a drink and she could leave. otherwise... he has a room under a false name upstairs, the keycard burning hot in his pocket. ]