Trickster's Queen - Weebly

Homewood. She was in reality Alianne of Pirate's
Swoop, the daughter and granddaughter of Tortall's
spymasters, raised from the cradle to compete in the
world of international espionage. During the previous
summer she had acted as chief bodyguard to the
Balitang children. With the arrival of spring and the
move to Rajmuat, Aly knew she would become the
rebellion's spymaster. Although the Balitangs' former
housekeeper, Que-danga, has remained in Rajmuat to
collect information from long-standing networks of
spies, Aly's specially recruited spies and those they will
train have their own unique work ahead. They will
collect information for the rebel leaders to use against
their enemies, and conduct whatever actions of
sabotage and psychological operations required to put
the raka's enemies at odds with each other. For sixteen
years she studied such work under her father's eye.
Now she would do it herself, for the promise of better
leadership for the Isles.
In preparation, Aly used the winter to build a cadre
of trained spies, people among the household who
could learn and use all she had to teach. The lessons of