Location:Sanctum Perimeter (Field) / Seven Peaks — Shadow Pavilion Office
Date/Time:TC1854.10.05-10
Agent 9 — field name Wren — had been in the Shadow Pavilion for eleven years.
Before that, she'd been an Imperial Census operative, which sounded mundane and was the opposite. Census operatives went where the Empire needed counting done and counted things the Empire didn't want to acknowledge existed: unregistered settlements, undocumented populations, resource flows that bypassed the taxation framework. You learned to observe without being observed, to record without judgment, and to write reports that said exactly what you saw and nothing about what you thought you saw, because the Empire didn't pay for opinions.
