[ Yseult would very much like to roll her eyes at Byerly's considerable skills but annoyingly he really is considerably more skilled and experienced than nearly all of the agents at her disposal. She doesn't quite sigh, but there's something of it in her nod. ] Within reason. I won't ask that you risk keeping written record of your expenses but I will expect you--all of you [ a glance includes the other three as well ]--to be able to account for your spending if asked.

[ She plucks out a couple pages from the folder beneath her notebook, and offers it out to Byerly and Colin. It contains a list of five or so names, all nobility of various ranks and reputations. There is a summarized dossier on each, noting potential motivation for preferring a treaty and vulnerabilities to outside influence. ]

It's thin, I know. I would begin with either Lucienne du Pre [ a dowager comtesse with a young son and a gambling problem, rumored to be struggling to afford the troops Celene demands ] or Georges-Clement Lito [ a baron of notoriously outsized jealousy whose nemesis owns an iron mine and is making a fortune supplying the war effort ] but I leave that decision to the two of you. Questions?