Kaz has to dig a bit to find any sea charts, and they're from before the Fifth Harbor was reopened. She's not having Sturmhund in her office. They can move to one of the private rooms and have whoever the pirate's currently flirting with bring her up to them.

Works for Val.

She makes it happen.

"Oh hello. Are we doing the special service?"

"Not this week. Business before pleasure."

"Ooh, coldly firm. Heard that about you. So what are we looking at?"

" - So Nina's part of Kaz's crew, apparently - she returned to Ketterdam with Kaz, but she was grabbed by unidentified hostiles on their way in. Flying hostiles. I've narrowed the probable distances they could've flown with her down, and we're trying to figure out if those guesses are reasonable - and if there's any likely places for people-smugglers to be operating in these arcs."

" - Also, have you heard anything about weird winged people?"

She's not supposed to talk about her intelligence briefings.

"That... sounds like something the Shu would have been experimenting with."

"But why would they grab Nina - ?"

Ah.

"Because she's wearing Kuwei's face."

Blink. " - That might not fool them for long." Which means they might have an even shorter ticking clock than initially thought.

"She's a good actress. But we were expecting she'd be with Van Eck, yeah."

"What else do we have to work with - ?" (This is directed at both Kaz and Sturmhund.)

She can try to tug on some connections more aggressively, but it'll take time.

Kaz has the Dregs gathering information. And a rendezvous with the other half of her team from White Island later.

" - That team happen to include the long lost Fjerdan princess?"

Oooh.

"That's an interesting theory that I won't be explicitly confirming to a Ravkan soldier for what I hope are understandable reasons, no matter how loose her interpretation of orders are."

Snort. "Fair enough - and as much as I'd like to, I can't promise that what happens in Ketterdam will stay in Ketterdam. There's too many other players on the board."

"And either way, I don't want to try rescuing Nina just via 'sic the Fjerdans on the Shu' - that'll get messy, and royal favor or not, I'm not abandoning her to them."

Kaz will let Nina make her case on her own time.

"Yeah, outright war's in no one's interest."

"None of ours, at least."

Hmmm... "Sturmhund and I also won't be the last ones coming here looking for Kuwei - we're just the first. I'm not sure how the Shu beat us here, but we'll want to move fast before they can get backup... And we'll want to move fast to track down Inej, too. A week isn't much time, and we don't want to risk Van Eck getting spooked by all the attention turning here."

"Ground search won't do much good if the Shu are keeping Nina on a ship. I can have my crew check the water and follow up with what's going on at the embassy, if you want to focus on Inej."

...She wants to save Nina - 

- But she has to trust her allies. 

"Alright." Deep breath. To Kaz: "I might be able to track them from where she was taken, but a more thorough list of his holdings will help."

"I'll get it."

"How long will that take?"