Recovery Action 2

This follows on from Recovery Action and runs to 2,054 words.

Briony didn’t know how Mr Oda and his servants were communicating, but she was more than prepared to believe that they were. That was the thing with textile patterns; any master’s or journeyman’s variation on a known piece could throw up something completely new. If she was going to have to leave in a hurry then she wasn’t going to leave the patterns that her family’s livelihoods depended on behind, but on the other hand she wasn’t going to make it obvious that something had been taken either. She closed the safe door again and spun the dial to make sure it was locked. Then she closed the wooden floor panel and used the lock picks to make sure it wouldn’t just open again.

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This is now followed by Recovery Action 3