Night 11

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[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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[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.

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[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.

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...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...]

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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.]

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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.

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[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.

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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]

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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.