The proper solution to this problem, Mae decided as he stared at the building, was arson. He hated missions like this--sneaky missions with no real purpose where he was supposed to soft foot around the problem and pretend he wasn't a killer who had literally no qualms about murdering people in their sleep.

Anyway, if this local political leader was so worried about assassins and conspiracies against him, Mae razing part of a town where the conspirators hideout was would totally take care of the problem, and it would stop wasting Mae's time. Anyway, if he burned down part of the town, then he wouldn't get assigned these missions anymore. Probably punished too, but maybe it would be something fun like working in T&I. They wouldn't mke him watch over Academy brat again after what he'd done last time....so it wouldn't be that bad.

And in deference to civilian life, he was going to set his fire in the early morning with some very nasty accelerate, so innocents could run screaming while the nefarious plotters who had been up gambling all night would be caught in their beds and probably choke on the noxious smoke.

Really, Mae was just bored enough he didn't care about proper planning and set up. He was just going to light the damn place up and let it burn.