Guilelessly (when the option was available, truth was Aviva’s preferred spying strategy), she explained, “I’m sure you don’t recognize me, but I come to the park often - er, to feed the ducks, you know - and I’ve been noticing you for years.”Īt that, Sunglasses and Tartan looked truly taken aback. Regardless, years of espionage experience stood her in good stead. “Why?” drawled Sunglasses - and for all Aviva’s training in reading posture and vocal tone, she could not for the life of her have said whether or not the question was sarcastic. Tartan looked at her as if she’d grown a second head, or possibly a fifth. “Excuse me,” she said.īoth men spun in perfect synchronicity to stare at her.Īviva took a half-step back, and greeted them with a warm, professionally personable smile. So today, Aviva was setting out on a reconnaissance mission.Īviva approached the pair near a bench. Some vere simply bitter about having missed the moment others suspected their counterparts of deception others strove to keep an open mind about the whole thing.Īmerican Central Intelligence Agency Operative Aviva fell into the latter category. As things stood, given that the international intelligence community was in fact searching desperately for something, anything else to talk about, the speculation that erupted in the aftermath of The Hug knew no bounds.ĭespite the multiple corroborating accounts, several of those secret agents who had had the misfortune to be absent from the park on the day of The Hug (but who were, like their fellows, very well aware of Tartan and Sunglasses and their constant, careful, conscientiously maintained distance) professed skepticism that The Hug had ever really happened. It was a scene that would have been memorable even if every member of the international intelligence community had not been searching desperately for something, anything, to talk about that did not relate to Atlantis, lemon drops, or other mass hallucinations. James's Park had been abuzz with gossip ever since the day that Sunglasses and Tartan (the odd pair that every spy in the circle had been taking note of for as long as anyone or their predecessor could recall) were first observed, as confirmed by multiple independent eyewitness testimonies, to hug each other. To be precise : The secret agent gossip ring of St. James's Park had been abuzz with - well - gossip ever since the day of The Hug.
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