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Spies and Spying: Week 6. Period 1

Aly stood in front of the class looking thoughtful as they came in.

"Over the past five classes, we've talked a lot about different ways to get information," she said. "But we've never talked about what to do once you have the information. In general, that's not the spy's job. The spy simply retrieves the information and passes it up the chain of command. It's the spymaster or the officer or the politician's job. But things are rarely that easy, and none of you are actually spies." She grinned. "That I know of."

"So how do you know when to act? How do you know when to act wisely? When the goal is revolution, the object should only rarely be to just taunt the person in power or draw his attention to you. You need a plan. You need a clear objective, and you need to make sure you have as much information as possible before you act."

She raised an eyebrow. "So take...oh, whatever possibility you wish to discuss and form a plan of action. Decide what information you need, and how - using the techniques we've talked about - you'd go about getting it."

[OOC: ~~Please wait for~~ OCD is up!]

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"Or not," Seely added quickly.

"I don't want you to," she replied with a small smile. "It would just be fun to point out her lack of a legitimate title, if she's so concerned with them."

"Start writing her letters," Seely suggested. "Very polite letters."

Aravis looked confused. "Why?"

"She can't get you for being polite."

She considered that. "But I've been polite in person and she's not appreciated it."

"But you'll be in a different room when she reads the letter."

"And I won't be able to see her reaction," she noted, disappointed.

"But she can't hurt you either."

"I don't care if she hurts me."

"I do."

"She'd have to catch me," she replied with a small smile.

"She will if you're standing there while she reads them."

"I could wait for her reaction and then run away."

She raised her eyebrows. "Besides, if she's occupied with me, she can't be hurting anyone else, right?"

"She might stop you running away."

"She could just as easily stop you, then."

"But I won't be in the same room as her by choice."

"That really doesn't make a difference if you're still provoking her."

"I'll have a longer head start."

"Not by too huge a margin."

"Same room."

"It doesn't matter. If she's hurting me, she can't be hurting you, and according to your reasoning, that makes it fine."

"It doesn't make it fine, because her hurting you is worse than her hurting me."

"...how?"

"Because it is."

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