"You want me to sleep with someone and kill him."
"Yes and no."
"What do you mean, yes and no?"
"You say it as if it's nothing. I'm not asking you to sleep with some soldier in a guardhouse and slit his throat. We're talking about Roland Hunter, the head of Internal Affairs."
"THE Hunter? The man who ordered the purges?"
"Ordered, planned and executed, and the man who makes sure there is no rebellion of conscience among the whites, no dissent of any kind. A big target, Elonna, and very wary." Again she was silent.
"Still. If you could arrange it….. I think I could do it."
"With what weapon, Elonna?"
"Well, what about a poison needle?"
"No good. You will be thoroughly searched. Thoroughly."