Chance favours the prepared mind— Louis Pasteur
Magariel visits the Blackheath Tether to The Wind bright and early in the morning (say, dawn), and demonstrates why Windies don't have much of a problem with Creationers in their midst. Why not, he suggests, send the Dagger of Bithynia back across the Atlantic in the company of a Malakite of the Wind with an explosive vest, and see what sort of trouble you can attract? There is much chuckling from the Seneschal, who promises to pass the idea on.
Helophel, meanwhile, attempts to prepare herself properly for her impending recruitment drive. She spends her morning at the Michaelite offices near the Cenotaph, speaking with the Cherub Seneschal Haramine and reading the "house-training" files that the Ofanite secretary Jophiel pulls out for her. She also manages to talk to some Soldiers around the Tether, as well as a couple of other angels who have done recruitment before. The sum total of the advice isn't all that useful; Helophel will have to bring her potential soldiers to the Tether for Michael to awaken them to the Symphony and add a sixth force, so she'll have to be pretty sure of them beforehand. As to how she does that, and sells the whole idea to them, the advice is mostly "Wing it."
Deciding to utilise all her resources, Helophel asks Atoziel to do a little hacking to supplement the office's meagre information on CI5. This he does; wielding his new Library Card attunement, the information readily falls into his lap. He isn't entirely certain that he didn't set off some alarms, though. CI5's computer systems are very well protected!
Plans are hatched to interview Curtis and Keel on as little notice as the angels can get away with, somewhere that CI5 will have trouble putting surveillance into. Helophel wants Atoziel and Magariel there as known quantities to the CI5 men who will be able to spot odd things going on. She would also like another Servitor of Destiny to lurk in the background and use the Divine Destiny attunement; after all, that should give a good solid hint as to whether the pair are good Soldier material. Atoziel happily bounces off to find someone appropriate. Magariel resonates to check on his various attuned — it would be a bad idea to schedule a meeting when he is expecting problems. Of them all, David is in faint, rather indefinite danger and Jenny is set for real trouble in a matter of days. Alarming as that is, Magariel reckons on being able to fit in the interview in the evening.
As further backup, Boriel sets himself to make a smart jammer for the meeting, so that even if the CI5 men are wired no information will get back to control. He is carefully working in the smarts to only jam active transmissions (and so not give the jammer away too soon), when the phone goes; it's Harry Rand checking that Barry is up for the rugby practice on Thursday evening. They gossip a bit, and Boriel promises to be there. He then works on a project he promised Magariel, bugging Jenny's phone line and installing a hidden security camera outside her house. The Ethereal Song of Form is blessed once again as he works!
Meanwhile, Blakely is happily maintaining his role by working through the backlog of post mortems from the plane crash on Tuesday. He is interrupted briefly by Inspector Jones and his tame gorilla — sorry assistant — from Internal Affairs. They are making routine enquiries following the disappearance of PC Wells and WPC Herald. Blakely has no useful information to supply (since he isn't going to mention his suspicions that Wells is a Djinn of the Game!), so Jones leaves unsatisfied in his attempts to find a motive. Coffee-room gossip, later attempting to recreate the investigation, fares no better. No one can think of any reason why either Constable might want to vanish, there were no signs of them being up to anything, none of the classic pointers that people only see in hindsight. All very worrying.
Magariel returns from exercising a Rite at a local Art Gallery, and the angels set off in the company of Oloriel, a Malakite of Destiny with the Divine Destiny attunement. Would Curtis and Keel like to meet "not Josephine" at the Blue Boar in Soho? No, it turns out that they wouldn't; they are in Birmingham, on business. They should be back on Thursday evening, though, if that's OK?
Acquiring a car from the Tether car pool, the angels decide to go to Birmingham anyway. Research from Jophiel suggests several reasonable meeting places, of which the most popular (at least with Magariel) is a cafe-bar that has met with Eli's approval. Besides, it's called "Angelo's".