"So 17 shops were essentially compromised by those damned old coots?" Shoti read off the report to Lind and he sighed at her wording.
"For the last time, they are not old coots, they are simply–" He saw her look at him mischievously and he just sighed. "Yes, we found signs of them embedding spies in our shops not to gather information but to try and place tainted products."
The weavers had been reporting products showing up in their storehouses that felt wrong. Lind had examined them and confirmed they were made by mixing souls. It was good that others could detect it but how they got there was the more disturbing part.
They had rigorous testing of all products made by their various shops around the layer. The only way something like that got through was if someone put them in a cleared batch after the fact.
To do that was not an easy thing either!