Explore the cabin

The inside was small but surprisingly luxurious. An open common (or as the Americans say living) room complete with a large flat screen TV, leather sofa, and artificial fireplace. A small but modern kitchen, and a fully stocked mini bar.

'I guess the Stones aren't exactly struggling to get by' thought Jamie to herself. This cabin was better looking than her flat. Twin bee began to explore the bedrooms but Jamie paused, noticing two folders on the coffee table. Deftly picking them up, she opened the one labeled 003 and began to scan the documents inside.

The pages mostly included information about the Gold Lake Mining company, Lukas's shell corporation that owned the dredges. There were files on all employees that worked the dredges (including potential **** fuel, if they wished to go in that direction), blueprints of all five dredges (duly obtained from the Nome chamber of commerce for 25 cents per copy), and a map and satellite images of the surrounding area.

Liam stuck his head in the room. "Check out your bedroom. You can use some shut eye. "

Finding his sentiment to be most agreeable, she put the folder down and made her way to the door. Opening it, she found a small bedroom with a low bed in the middle and a small nightstand between it and the wall, as well as a desk and another TV.

Walking over to the bed, she let {if J-TB attraction > 21} her nude body {else}
herself {endif} collapse into its cushioned embrace, waves of tiredness washing over her and pulling her into a restless sleep.

Meanwhile...

0300 hours

Somewhere in Asia

It was dark, and wet.
The former because of a ragged hood over her head, the latter due to a pail of water being dumped on her face to awake her. It does that rather well, Nong Yao mused through her ringing ears, as the hood was removed by one of the hired muscle. Her entire body ached, her surroundings spinning wildly.

Blinking away the dizziness of whatever damn thing these bastards had injected her with, she tried to sit up, but the room spun faster, the ringing growing louder. Letting herself fall onto the hard floor, she took in her surroundings.

She wasn't in a room, but the back of a van. A van currently making its way down a road, judging by the constant jolts and hum of the motor. But that was the third thing to register in her slowly clearing mind. She was restrained too, her hand shackled to the floor.

That was the second thing to register as the fog steadily cleared.
Her heart was beating a mile a minute, due to the face leering in the dark with her, the unmistakable features of Havel Beran.

That was the first thing to register.

Leaning in close, Havel grinned his signature smile, causing Nong Yao's heart to seize up with pure terror.

"Lovely evening isn't it?"

Back in Nome...

Jamie rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, listening to "Liam" explaining the game plan he drew up.

"Conditions are perfect for infiltrating the dredges on Christmas eve, AKA Thursday night. There's a full moon, and the Gold Lake employees are on holiday. There are some hired guards coming in, but they're corporate security, basic stuff. It is currently..." he checked his watch "1834 hours on the 21st December, meaning we have three days between then and now.

Since we are well rested, I think we should do some early scouting tonight. Two options that I could think of are getting a closer look at the dredges, maybe even doing a dry run of the infiltration, or going to Bering Sea Bar and grill, the pub that the Gold Lake employees frequent, trying to see what information we could glean that way. How's it sounding so far Emily?"

"Great, except that Americans say BAR not pub. And we're an average couple, so no military jargon. Don't want to see a repeat of that."

Twin Bee blushed.

"Yes Chief. We should be home by 1:00 AM tonight, which will be the 22nd December. Assuming we're asleep by 1:30, we wake up at ten, go for breakfast, and then shop for supplies and weapons. We eat dinner at home and end the day.

No plans for the 23rd. I'm leaving it empty for flexibility as we see fit. The 24th, same, except that we need to rest up in the afternoon for the infiltration Christmas eve."

Jamie nodded, pleased.

"Excellent work on the scheduling, I must say that I am impressed. I look forward to seeing your skills over the next few days. Play your cards right, and it looks like I'll be calling you 00 pretty soon.

Just make sure not to call anyone bloody wanker"

Twin Bee smiled.

"Thank you Chief. So, what are we doing tonight?"