==Regulus Office==
"Sir, there's a call for you."
"Put it through, put the laboratory on low alert. Then, clear out your workspace. You're fired."
"..."
"Is there a problem?"
"...no, Lord Regulus."
"Good. Get out of my sight." Regulus signed. Zagrene's body was good at that. Still, his fairly anonymous looks were serving him well.
Perhaps if the boy doesn't work out... But there would be time for that later. He looked at the caller I.D. Head of MI5. Interesting. Clearly, either they had suddenly become competent, or there was a serious breach in security that allowed them to get it. He decided to bank on the latter, and quickly began formulating a plan to flush out the leak. He picked up the phone. "Hello, idiot. I hope you're not calling a number I distinctly remember never giving you just to wast my time with your usual pointless drivel. I've got a meeting on the other side of the world in two days, and I have to spend that time figuring out
exactly how to tell this consultant everything he needs to know without telling him anything he shouldn't know." That last part was a lie, a simple mind-rub would be a trivial thing in case something went wrong, but even the Queen's own security team did not know the true nature of his existence. Even within the royal family, those who knew the truth were few and far between. **** it, he was doing it again.
Narrating his own life. The perils of merging with a writer...with effort, he dragged his wandering mind back to the phone call. "I don't appreciate being interrupted, especially by an incompetent fool like yourself. Do you remember 2006? How many more like that since then, hmm? A man was
killed, a man I was closer to than you'll ever understand."
In more than one sense. "It's been six
years, and with all your resources you can't catch a single killer? And now, three more of my staff are dead."
Eight, if you include the five candidates I was researching. Hopefully at least some of them really were of his kind, he'd hate to see their knowledge vanish forever. "Know this, fool. Until you catch this sonofa***** and bring him to me so I can personally execute him with my own personal flair, this will be our last conversation. Now, what did you think was important enough to disturb me."
OOC: I decided to change the original version of "execute him with my own personal flair", it was VERY graphic, far too violent even for a PG-13 rated RPG. 