audio; un: Sabriel.Abhorsen; The morning after the Gala

[bindsthedead]

The orb was in the royal family museum until very recently. Remi put a suppression spell on the orb- a strong one. It's able to keep the orb from corrupting its surroundings- and as far as I can tell, it's still on it.

The spell's strong enough that I was able to follow it straight to where they were keeping the orb, and I couldn't sense the orb's presence until I was right next to the cushion it had been resting on. But the spell's not enough to keep the orb from forming bargains, even if it keeps the thing from other forms of mischief.

[So having to negotiate with the whoever has it is still a possibility.]

Security at the palace is poor enough that someone from the outside getting in isn't implausible. I was able to swim in and and out without being noticed this morning, and I'm hardly an expert in stealth.

Nothing else was taken from the museum, and there was no sign of force being used to enter. So whoever took it knew exactly what they were looking for, either had the key or could pick locks... and locked the door behind them.

[Which speaks to an inside job, or something carefully planned.]

The guards mentioned that the princess has run away before, and a guard named Zek said the queen raised her voice to someone late last night. It may be a good idea to ask him for further details, as well as where the princess tends to run off to.

Either the queen or the princess has the orb and they fled the city together for some reason, or the orb reached out to someone before Remi put that spell on it, and this is a theft and kidnapping long planned. The trail leads out of the palace- and out of the city gates, but the currents past there obscured the trail.

Comments

[victorylap]

Well. That's a problem. Guess we're going out into the wild blue, huh?

audio; un: Ambus

[legalcy]

The Queen is stressed in general. I'm nor surprised she had any sort of outburst. But she would not leave her work for just any reason.

voice; un: stardust

[shadysided]

I've been working on trying to be a 'sentry in training'; not exactly getting up there in the ranks or anything more than a glorified fangirl of the guard, but maybe I could try to chat up this Zek guy and get something out of him? Or any of the guards, really. I've got nothing better to do, unless plotting revenge against some mean mergirls count as 'better'.

audio (un: major.yzak.jule)

[coordination]

Would you mind accompanying me through the city to show me where that trail went through it? I may be able to pull some strings and see if I can find anybody who might have seen or heard something strange going on along the path.

audio. un: barnes.

[starer]

The kid left Zivi behind. She didn't run away.