The Insider System

Chapter 285: Priorities

Hearing the Temple Heads request to help her make sure there weren't any people who shouldn't be allowed into their base, Lake tried to think of what he should set Detector to to find the people inside just this building. If he set it to look for all of the spies that were infiltrating the Temple of Light Detector would pick up all of them in the whole world.

Realizing just using Detector without the arrow since it had a limited range would be better, Lake set it to look for enemies of the Temple of Light. "Temple Head can't this wait till later, whoever has Dawn could get to wherever they're trying to take her if you don't go now."

Hearing Tiff's complaint, Lake said. "Don't worry there only seems to be one person that shouldn't be here so we can take care of it on the way out the door." Seeing this seemed to settle, Tiff down Lake led the way out of the office towards the person that was glowing. "It's whoever is in this room."

Lake didn't just burst into the room and attack whoever it was because he could tell this was an office like the one the Temple Head had so what he was saying might be a big deal that needed some more evidence than just him saying it was true. "Are you sure?" He could tell by the look on both the faces of Tiff and the Temple Head that he had been right to not charge in.

"I'm looking for enemies of the Temple and this is the only one that's in the Temple but I can understand if you want to confirm it before you take my word." After he said this the Temple Head looked at Tiff and said. "This might take a bit longer than expected. Go tell Ronnalis to come here." After she said this and Tiff had gone to do what she had been told the Temple Head turned to him and said. "Come into the room with me in case there's more than one person. I'll need you to tell me who it is."

Lake nodded and walked in after the Temple Head. Seeing two people other than the glowing person Lake pointed at the person behind the desk. He didn't say anything though so as to not give anything away to who they were here for. "Would you two go wait for me in my office?" Seeing the Temple Head dismiss the two other people Lake wasn't sure what was about to happen but it seemed the Temple Head planned to wait for Tiff to come back because she stayed silent and the only person who talked was the one behind the desk. "What's going on? Why did you interrupt my meeting with Greg and Seth?"

Once again the Temple Head stayed silent and Lake could tell this was causing great distress to the guy behind the desk. As someone who snuck into a few places while pretending to be something he wasn't, he could put himself in their place and kind of knew what was going through his head.

Right now they should be weighing the option of trying to run but stopping themself with the thought that if they ran and they hadn't been discovered they would give themself away for sure. Wanting to disrupt this process on the off chance they tried to run or attack, Lake went ahead and introduced himself. "Hello I'm Lake. I'm here to look for Dawn."

This should cause them to think this was a friendly meeting and the Temple Head was being weird for a reason that had nothing to do with him. "Nice to meet you. I'm Davin." Lake saw the man extend a hand for a handshake and didn't really want to reach out to touch it on the off chance that it was a trick and Davin planned to kill him or something when they touched but decided he would be fine.

After the handshake had ended Lake tried to pretend like he wasn't relieved as he backed away to stand next to the Temple Head again. Seeing he had succeeded in killing the tension, Lake looked back at the Temple Head to see if she was just still silently staring at Davin. Seeing she was Lake wished she was hiding the hostility that was in her gaze better but it made him wonder if maybe she wasn't because Davin wasn't a threat to her if it turned out he was a traitor.

Maybe she had been trying to scare Davin into proving what he had claimed to be true and all he had done by breaking the tension was get in the way of the easiest way to get Davin to give himself away. Lake had been trying to stop a fight when really he should have been trying to provoke one before any accusations were even made.

It seemed to be too late for this though because as soon as he had this though the door opened and two people entered with one being Tiff and the other most likely being Ronnalis. With all of them in the room now Lake looked at the Temple Head and was about to ask if he still needed to be there but she got to it first. "Tiff and Lake, you two can wait outside if you want."

Hearing it was up to him Lake looked at Tiff to see what she did. He was fine with watching this process but if she left he would take it as a sign he should as well. Tiff saw him looking at her and nodded towards the door before starting to walk towards it. Doing the same, Lake followed her out into the hallway.

"So what is that person's position? Are they really important to the Temple?" Davin had only said his name with no title so Lake was still curious who he had accused. "Davin, he's in charge of troop placement for about half of our army." Hearing this guy was like a general, Lake knew he had really caused a mess and wondered if he should try to use Detector to get more information on Davin but instead he asked. "What about the person the Temple Head made you go get, what do they do?"

"Ronnalis is our best person at detecting spies and such. He can detect lying." Hearing there was someone else who could do what he could, Lake wasn't surprised. He had actually been worried about this for a long time so it made him feel good to know he had been worried about it this whole time with it actually being a possibility.

Lake was about to ask another question but didn't get the chance because he heard a large crash in the room and backed off to avoid getting caught up in whatever was going on inside. A second Later the door opened and the Temple Head and Ronnalis stepped out with Ronnalis carrying Davin on his shoulder.

"Alright Lake we can go now. Oh wait no I need to do something else now. Follow me to my office again real quick." Thinking the other thing she needed to do was related to the two people the Temple Head had told to wait for her in her office so he followed her like he had been asked. Once they were there the Temple Head said. "Lake wait here. I'm about to talk about something only members of the Temple can hear. Tiff come in, you should hear this as well."

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Stepping into the office Tiff saw two other members of the 23 sitting inside. Tiff wanted to ask what they were doing here but she figured it would come up naturally. "What was Davin saying to you two?" Hearing these two had been with Davin when the Temple Head had gone inside the office Tiff wanted to hear what they had been talking about.

"He was asking us why we had refused our orders that he had given us and we were explaining that we had been banned from leaving the base."

"It seems we caught him just in time in that case. Losing you two would have been a tragedy for the team." What the Temple Head said was true, Greg was the strongest person in the team and Seth wasn't far behind. "What do you mean caught him, what happened?" Seeing they didn't seem to understand what was happening Tiff looked to the Temple Head to see how she would choose to break the news that one of the people who had been working with them for years was a traitor.

"Davin has been identified as a traitor. We're not sure for how long or to whom he was feeding information but it's confirmed by two people." Wanting to see if this news would affect Greg, Tiff had kept her eye on his face as the Temple Head had been breaking this news only to see he didn't even blink as he was told Davin was a traitor.

"Feel free to talk about this with the other people on the team but try not to spread the word to any one else until it's announced. I'll be gone for an uncertain amount of time so stay on guard while I'm gone." After the Temple Head said this she stood up and said. "Tiff, be careful while I'm gone. You'll still be the number one target."

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Seeing the Temple Head walk out of her office Lake asked. "Are we ready to leave?" Getting a nod from the Temple Head Lake was slightly surprised she could leave so soon after a huge incident but he guessed this Dawn person was important enough to be a top priority.