Little Flame In The Garden (Narcissa & Cody)

She was still at work. Daffodil and Narcissa separated during the day and night. Daffodil was mostly at home but she had obvious moments at this room in the bar. The barman her faithful ally who told her about the notes and would bring it when the letter of Cody was dropped off and she thanked him kindly before she would just leave the letter for a second on the side. She had seen someone at the mailbox, it was underneath her window that was covered with a sort of fabric that made her windows darker, but she could see outside. She did not see much, just a person. She put the papers in her bag and locked it up and would get it later. Right now she was working on a very difficult plan and that needed every piece of her attention. The reason why she cleared this up was because it was obviously that if the Daffodil got a request, Narcissa was too curious to wait too long to read the letter. She went to sit back in her chair and threw her feet on the table and took the envelope.

She read it and read it again and stood up again. She would take a deep breath and opened another bag again and took a white mask out. She looked at it to make sure there was no smudge on it before cleaning the bag away again and she checked herself in the reflection of the mirror after she adjusted the mask to the contours of her face. She fixed her long caramel coloured hair up in a bun and checked her white with grey dress. She was ready but she wondered if people understood what working with her meant but she would pay them, she was not missing money very quickly, the ease of being an ambassador and the ease of her plans, if only it would work. She gave a small smile to herself that was not visible because of the mask and headed downstairs. Locking the door behind her and leaning over the bar to talk to her alley behind it, he would keep an eye out. She turned around and leaned against the bar, okay a person with bandages, that should be easy to find. Surely here and there, there was someone with a bandaid but eventually, she found the bandages and walked to that table. "Hi." She sat down without an invitation, "I read your letter and I have some time to discuss your ideas." Or give him some ideas, depending on what he preferred.

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It was actually a strange phenomenon, the fact that Narcissa spoke to quite a few people on a daily basis while she was so full of rage. She could not stand people, the dishonesty that people showed and the lies and untrustworthy was why the contrast of her job was so strange. She talked to people, she listened but it all was fake, if they would do something to her, she would not wait and kill or well, let them be killed. Narcissa did not want to get her own hands dirty, she had good people working with her such as Ndeye, so she was actually rather curious what the word on the street was. Narcissa had been hiring people that she thought would fit her line of work rather perfectly, in this case, that was the girl who wanted to learn stealth and the man without an identity. As well as Niso, but he was fascinating in every sense of the word. With a grump looking face she was looking at her reflection and touched the scar underneath her eye, light pink on her soft brown skin. It annoyed the crap out of her as well, but it's because her mother had made it. Her life, it had always warned her for what was coming but she had not wanted to see the signs. Now the signs were over and their faces no longer in her life, though still in her nightmares. She just shrugged them off. She put the mask over her face, hiding the scar, hiding her cheekbones, her jawline, her lips and basically everything but one eye. The other looking slightly through the vines of the white mask. At least this person seemed to know slightly how the world worked, not being disappointed by her mask. She might like this person a little more than normal people.

She found him and quickly dropped herself on his table and started her blunt thing. Time was of the essence in the life of an informant, time in this case was literally money. Every piece of information would be able to find her if she was available and she already worked most of the day because of having a civilian identity. Narcissa, as many had already learned, was not someone to be silly and take matters the long way, she went usually straight to the point. Not everyone liked that and not everyone appreciated that, but this was just how she was and it would not change, no matter what identity. She needed to know what this man thought and what he wanted, that meant also she assumed he was a guy because the bandages made it difficult but his voice was there. She nodded, he started well, that was for sure. She smiled a little, though hidden by her mask, she simply turned her head a little, by tilting it to the left and looked at him with her brown eyes, giving a nod to indicate he could go on.

"You seem to know quite a lot already of what I normally need." She said softly, though they were in a bar, she knew these people, she had them all winded around her fingers like little puppets, but that did not mean that she did want others to hear it. Just this man, that was enough. "I have my own little organisation, lowkey if you would say that is not really something that takes you every day but it could be. I am looking for people who would like to work with me. That entails at first instance that you go and do your own thing no matter what but if you hear anything particular, peculiar or interesting, you refer it to me and I pay, no matter what you tell me." Though don't make a mistake in that if people would give her bullshit all the time, she will find out. Source checking. "I also trust these people in my little garden enough to give them bigger jobs like tracking some of my targets or coming along on dangerous jobs, an informant is always in danger aren't they?" She liked this man, his smirk was interesting and well he seemed to know exactly how to play this. "You come at the right time too, I have been working on a silent mission to get rid of one of the ministers."

It was always nice to know and meet people that were interested in the line of work that she offered. Her hard work in the last halfyear brought finally its fruits. Though the fruit would not be ready for harvest yet but she would work on that in a few weeks. The plan was unfolding and becoming ready but that means that it would soon be time to see how that would result. To see meltdown's interest she would mention what her next plan was and with an amused invisible smile on her face, she eyed the man opposite her and made a soft chuckling sound, "Wouldn't it only be more interesting if I say both." She said with an amusing noise in her voice, for now, she would not say more and she would see if he would be interested in everything she would tell him.

"I am glad to hear that, it would be nice to have more people around to depend on and of course, if you would need information or a favour, the Garden of Whispers is open for that as well." She wanted to state, that's how she got Niso in, and basically Miyami too. It was a lot of work but it gave Narcissa the ability to learn more and to gather information for other villains and people, which was a very interesting job. "So could you tell me what your talents are because in my task to get rid of someone, I need to know who would be good to work with me." She always said that the players of her garden were with much more, in fact, she had a few goons that she could turn to her hand, they were mostly from this bar but she rather counted on her special team and Cody would obviously be part of that. She slid her business card across the table, "Here is my phone and the invitation to our hidden chat. It's to easier share your information with me or to discuss work matters." It would only work once, so he couldn't give the code to someone else, or he wouldn't be able to join anymore, so that's also how she knew if people were trustworthy or not. Narcissa leaned on her hand and tilted her head thus a little and stared at Cody. She really hoped this partnership would work out, it was a very interesting person already to look at, his interest in her next plan made it only the better.

She could not immediately give price everything she wanted, which was the whole reason why she would lead on Meltdown a little. She would just see if it was something that interested him, after all, she needed someone to comply with her ideas before giving them. She would wait for a short reaction before she would continue, though not immediately about how she planned to kill the minister and torture him at the same time. She would sell her idea, the concept of giving favours and taking favours is what made her able to do so quite well. She would see how well this would go at this point but it seemed to be going fine. She would be able to hide information from him or for him. It was just something that would depend on him. She would, therefore, ask his talents, this wasn't really a job interview or something, everyone had talents and he had already started very well with his idea of being low-key. See that's what you needed from people that would gain your information.

She nodded, well not everyone was very well versed with their quirk, had a quirk or was silent with her quirk like hers. So she only batted her eyes when he told her how his quirk worked, "Still a very interesting and useful quirk but I get what you mean." Burn people, now that was something she could use very well from time to time. Which only made her smile more, and besides, Ndeye might not be able to always come along and she refused to ask Antonio because it wasn't part of their deal on every front, it was protection against Crowley and Ishtar after all.

"I think you be the first to be called when I have my plan right into action. You definitely sound someone that works perfectly well in this little garden of mine." It was probably not too difficult to wonder why she called it a garden, it was like collecting flowers and it fitted her online alias that she now carried as her handle. Besides, she could use anything else from him. "But again I have to point out that not everything might be such a thrilling job, after all, it is mostly listening and using that information for all matters." Which was her main goal.

She handed him her business card, still saying the name Daffodil and the code to join the channel. She watched him while now leaning on her hand and just seeing what he would do with it. Smiling underneath her mask as she felt the buzz of her own phone stating that he joined. She gave a firm nod with this, "Yes." She said, giving in a moment of silence. "The information I need will be asked from you through that little chat and if you bump into any information, you can give it to me and I will pay you, of course I will also pay you if you can give me the information I asked for. It will be for both our best interest to not share it with others. But in the mean time you can always do whatever you want, just keep eyes and ears open for interesting talk and if I need something more than just information, I will offer it, and you could take it or you don't." It was a matter of so many things that happen, she wanted to be an open organisation for everyone. If she was this open, that meant she get more people to talk to her and give her information than stating they could only work for her. And as she only paid per job or obtained information, it was easy for her to do it this way. 

She was glad to see that she and Meltdown would be quite okay with this way of working together. He understood everything up to this point. That not everything would be interesting, that not everything asked for action and yet he might be asked, hired by her to get to that part specifically. She was very glad about that and liked how he smiled about the idea while he thought about it. She smiled to him though and would explain to him a little more about how the Garden also provided flavours and favours together with money, depending on what they wanted, everything or not. But she would have a few ideas where she could immediately make use of this new partnership.

"Don't apologize and do not be afraid. As a starter, it is difficult what is important and what is not or what is fascinating and what is not. The problem is I cannot explain this to you because some of the smaller things are considering interesting but of course, it always sounds like looking for the big gossip." She smiled, "So, in this case, it is trial and error." She hoped to take a little of the edge of Cody's ideas of what he could do and what he could let her know. That was indeed what the chat was made for as well and thus it was rather interesting to consider and this was the moment. She was rather happy with this moment, so nice that people went to find her out and inform her of their interests and work.

"We are exactly. Thank you for finding me and thank you for our future partnership." She smiled, this was the moment, Daffodil was going places if she would dare to admit to herself and Japan was now on her list.