video - un; nightmoves

[ruinously]

[ This seems important enough to divulge immediately while he's on a Ziggy hunt; ]

Guys, got something that might be pretty useful. Check these out.

[ He holds up his stolen papers, stretching them out so everyone can see, doing it slowly so they're able to be read. It's as listed;

- An official-looking parchment, granting an audience with the king to a Lord Durwald

- Several letters, all of them short, discussing arranging a fast horse and safe passage through the Forests of Gha'har, towards South Naelor; none are signed

- Notes, written by the same hand as the one asking for the horse; some of them seem to be detailing council meetings and discussions, but there are some particular entries that are of interest:

I have cause to suspect the king is using something to affect our decision-making. Yet another decision has been overruled by the council, despite majority vote passing it in the parliament yesterday. Have enlisted the help of Y.V. to spy on him.

Two more notes detailing council proceedings follow, but after them, there is one more entry:

Y.V. found the king speaking to the heirloom. Said there was a strange glow in the room. Suspicions can only be confirmed by removing heirloom.

Y.V. found dead this morning. Will put the plan to action tomorrow. ]

Seems important. Dunno how it correlates to stuff everyone else has found, but definitely think it should be looked into.

[ a pause, then- ]

If anybody's seen Cas, let me know.

Comments

voice; un: y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

Well done-- an important find indeed.

[His voice is low; he's in the middle of traveling right now, lingering toward the back of the party so as not to be detected Talking To Himself.]

I've only discovered a little about a betrayal within the original party in the midst of the hunt for the orb. [A beat.] And that Degar, their bard, had a brother. Not certain how relevant that is to our cause.

[ruinously]

Thanks. Sometimes I'm useful.

[ It's kinda hard sometimes to be a human amongst so many with naturally occurring powers. ]

Oh really? Who betrayed who? Was it a twin brother?

[softshoes]

I'm sure it's far more than just sometimes.

[Said as much for his benefit as Dean's: he's another normal human and beginning to feel it, himself.

He almost privates the message on instinct-- it's someone's personal business, after all-- before realizing other people might need to read this.]

Ellia Roundtree, or so Jun told the young Mr. Finn. As for the brother-- until I spoke to Miss Fribbington at her tavern, no one had mentioned that Dweyer, the former leader of the Songbird Brigade, was Degar's brother.

[ruinously]

[ It can be frustrating, feeling like you can't contribute beyond verbal support. ]

Huh, interesting. Wonder how that correlates with everything else.

[softshoes]

I... understand it's a painful topic to bring up, but it seems like an oversight to only be discovering this now. It wouldn't surprise me if it meant something more than we know now.

[Yujin pauses.]

Do you need help looking for someone, by the way?

[ruinously]

That's how it always is with these missions.

[ He doesn't reply right away, and a moment passes before he speaks back up. ]

His name is Cas. About five eleven, dark hair, wears a trenchcoat. He was here a few months, but I think he's gone now.

[softshoes]

I... cannot say that I've seen the man, unless he's changed his appearance like most of us have. I'll keep an eye out.

[He still feels so very weird about the whole 'being bright blue and horned' thing.]

Can you tell, if someone has returned home?

[ruinously]

Thank you.

[ Well. That would be understandable. Dean's glad he's remained relatively the same. ]

When they disappear that's where they go. Some choose to leave, the rest, I don't know. Cas wouldn't have left me. He wouldn't.

[softshoes]

[He'd know better than to argue it, even if he did know Dean. Whatever-- whoever-- Cas is to Dean, it's close; without a doubt.]

Then the orbs somehow sent him home prematurely...? I've heard it possible.

[ruinously]

Yeah. I think so. It happens.

[ It was so soon, though. He didn't-

have time. ]

Anyway, it's fine. He's probably better off there. [ he is not. but no one needs to know that. ]