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Night 11

[Awhile after night begins, and after Sync has spent some time talking to Sil about what happened, a new post appears in the journals. He still hasn't used this enough for most to recognise his handwriting, but those who do will realise it's a little shakier than normal]

The basement isn't safe, especially around the crafters rooms. I don't know if it's still there or not, but there was a monster hiding in the carpenter's room. It's already killed one person tonight.

[He doesn't write any more than that, no 'be careful' or anything. It's a warning, and that's all. Sync doesn't care what happens to most of the people here. But for those few he's beginning to realise he does...hopefully it will be enough]

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[She doesn't want this to become a snipe feast either. Knowing that Spinel was killed-and by the shadow creature-it weighs heavy on her, and she has a feeling Sync feels the same.

It's been a hard few months for the replica.

Quietly, she leads him to the bathing area, away from the sleeping quarters. It's strangely cave like, but least this way they can be certain about hearing anyone who could possibly come by. She sits down on an outcropping of rock, and loosens her collar. Glass hummingbird and butterfly pop out, and they move to explore the area, leaving Sync alone.]

[He follows, noticing the cave like quality of the area. It would bother him more, except right now it's not hot enough to. And with a clear exit, he can get out in a hurry if he ends up panicking.

Sync watches the glass creatures for a moment before focusing on Rei again as he sits nearby. He's nearly the same as the last time they met, barring the white fur covering his left arm and the lower part of his neck. It had been a hard few months indeed. He doesn't say anything yet, letting her talk first]

[She smoothes her shirt collar, going to cover up the choker that's around her neck. She hasn't changed much since they last spoke. She's wearing a comb with chains in her hair, but that's about it. Bangles too. She'll be putting on her crown of poppies for the added protection, even if it does look ridiculous.

Other then that, she's more or less the same. And she takes in a slow breath.]

I've been getting more visions lately. One of them happened when I went to check if the tension had eased in the Keep. The other was during night market.

[She gestures to her eyes.]

I was near about blinded from the light that happened at the end of it, as well as sick.

But it saved me from possession or worse, I think.

The night market...I have a feeling I know what caused that. What did you see?

[If it's something to do with the Vernacht, then he wants to know. The more they know about it, the better]

It was covered in...what looked like black tar, but runnier. It looked wrong-like a man had been grafted onto a horse. No eyes on the man torso, just teeth, too large for its mouth.

The horse had one red eye, right in the center. Same kind of teeth.

[Her hands tense, mimicing claws.]

The torso's arms were too long, as were the claws. We were in some sort of...stone place. I didn't really get many details, because it saw me, and charged for me.

It'd nearly touched me when this light burst out of nowhere.

I woke up a little after that. Yun caught me when I fainted, and took me away from the market proper.

[He winces a tiny bit at the description, rubbing his face with a hand before letting it fall]

You saw the Vernacht. The Sorrow, as some of the people here call it. I recognise the description - Luke, Hope and I found it. It tried to escape the seal the other night. That's probably what caused the vision.

Ah. So that's what saw me. One of the bullmen told me the story about the Sorrow.

[She shakes her head. She's better now, but there's no way she's ever going to the maze. Ever.]

I didn't know was called the Vernacht. So there were representatives of the storm lords that sealed it back in? Or was the seal too strong to escape in the first place?

You should tell their version sometime. The only one I know is from a book I found in the castle, and those tend to be biased as hell.

[He nods at the first question and shrugs at the second]

The seal was weakened. The Lord is to thank for that, he's been trying to use its power. Hope managed to reach out to the castle, and it summoned a person of each bloodline to help reseal it. We got lucky - it pulled the princess of Lindwurm that's trapped inside the castle, and she nearly ruined it by trying to kill the Leitner heir.

I would, gladly. It's not often you hear tales from something you might call fae.

[She shrugs. She'll tell him what she found out from Aten, but it's a distraction, especially after the mention of the Lindwurm heir.]

I've heard of the Leitner heir. Actually-I need their help, so I can get the choker removed.

[She makes an exasperated noise.]

The Lindwurm heir though. I really have to question her ability to make rational decisions-she sought out one of our company to 'mate' with him, without protection during the night.

[He glances at the choker at the mention of it, almost idly pinging it but coming back with nothing of interest. If it needed the Leitner heir though, it was probably the Lord's doing]

She what?

[Rei's getting a little bit of a confused look at that, before Sync shakes his head. Probably not important]

At any rate. She's not in her rational mind, as far as I can tell. She's consumed by hatred for the Lord and his line, and wants nothing more than to destroy each and every Leitner she can.

She had sexual intercourse with one of us. I know who, but I'd rather not say it out loud, just in case.

[Because who wants to end up getting tortured by the Lord for that? Or worse? She doesn't want their blood on her hands.]

But that's a problem. I've no idea what she's gone through, but-it sounds as if she's as much a danger to us as anyone else.

[And while she would love to release the girl and help her go through her pain? There's a difference between helping and doing something stupid. They could end up with a slaughter, like it had been with Lucus, back in the day.]

[Rei you're getting that confused look again. It's one that should probably say that Sync has no idea what you mean. He doesn't ask though, because it seems like something Rei doesn't want to talk about]

I don't think she would care much for us if released. Her hatred mostly has a focus, and she only burned me once with her fire when I got between her and the kid. Though I'm not sure if that was because I wasn't the target of her anger or because I brought up her brother.

Procreation, making babies. We'll discuss it later if you want.

[Because that's going to be a doozy, and she has some things she might need to explain to him, if Asch hadn't already. Especially since this place made things complicated.

She sighed though.]

It could be either, or it could be both. We don't know. What we do know is that the child needs to survive, and he doesn't deserve her wrath.

[She grimaces.]

And that she can do something with fire. Do you know if she can do something with ice?

[It still makes no sense to him at all, but when she mentions babies he at least has a reference point. Children usually had a mother and father, so logically they had something to do with it. That much he understood]

Uh-huh...

[Still. Confusing. He shakes his head to shrug it off, before focusing on the problem Alayne posed again]

Ice is the Lindwurm bloodline trait, I haven't seen her use it, but she probably can. Her brother certainly can, I've seen Zeph use it.

[Very confusing, and something she'll have to handle carefully. Otherwise they'll both be unhappy, at best.

That's for later. Other things to cover right now.]

I see. The reason I asked was...there was almost this...storm of ice, in the vision earlier.

Things were crashing, and being impaled. But just with ice.

...huh. Perhaps something happened to Alayne or Zeph...

[Something happening to Alayne would almost make sense, for that kind of vision. She seems the type to try throwing ice around. Something happening to Zeph...that idea worries him openly. Zeph is one of the few people he will admit he cares for, and he doesn't know how he has been lately. Hopefully he's alright...]

Maybe. I hope not, but it's difficult to say. I didn't see anyone, or anything else-just ice.

[She'd never met Zeph, but she knew Hibari had taken car of him. The poor boy. She didn't know how she could help the siblings.]

I feel...frustrated, that I don't have more useful information, and I'd rather not try again tonight.

Because I noticed they're making a feast in the kitchen, earlier.

[Which means the Lord is about to entertain himself by all signs. With the heirs or something else, Rei can't be certain.]

No, there's no point to risking more right now. There's too much chance of things going wrong.

[Hearing that the Lord is preparing a feast...that could be trouble. But it's also not his problem right now. He needs to find Luke and Hope, since they weren't at the house. The third floor was probably off limits anyway, so there was little he could learn]

One way or another we will probably find out either way.

[She nodded. She had tried some things, quietly, earlier. But...she doesn't want to borrow trouble either. The keep or the lord might not be looking at her specifically, and she doesn't want that to change.

She has her charges to take care of.]

Mm. And more likely sooner then later.

[She could likely go to the third level but only as a distraction. And it likely...would not end well. At all.]

But in the meantime, we can compare more notes, if you like. I've been doing some reading, both with books and objects.

Sure. I need to find Luke eventually, because he's going to be aware something's wrong with Asch. But I have time. What have you learned?

[This, this is something he knows how to do. Gather information, process it, work out the problems and then find a solution. This is what he was made to do, and it's kind of a relief being able to still do it despite the strange situation]

Mm. If you spoke with Asch, he might have shown you the book on the houses. There's various objects that I've read here. Some of them emotional reads, some of them memories. One of the more fruitful reads was of the shackles found in the Silver bedroom.

There's the story of the Sorrow that Aten-one of the Bullmen-told me, and a little about his kind as well. There's some things about the Lord and Lady, not much..the mirror man, the sirens. What the monsters are. The tea seller.

I'm not sure where to start, because all I know is that you know about the Sorrow.

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