Orontes though, realising outright hostility didn’t look good while trying to recruit new faithful to his Church, eventually called his people off, insisting they were all happier without Phebe and her brat. There followed several missions like the first, some under Macedonia’s direction, others specifically for the Patriarch. Once they were asked by Timothy to help free a misguided son from an overbearing sect, another time Macedonia decided that one of the town’s pimps had gone too far and it was time his whores, led by herself and Theodora, took revenge. On several occasions they wined and dined visiting traders, passing back information gleaned across comfortable couches and groaning tables to either the Patriarch’s people in Alexandria or Macedonia’s contacts among the Blues in the City. Despite her initial reservations, Theodora came to relish these games, they were a form of the playing she’d always enjoyed, but now when she went home it was to Macedonia who had become her friend as well as her lover.
