[All the orbs at his disposal, excellent. He'll make sure Viktor gets a very nice, very plush chair, and he will not comment at all if he happens to fall asleep in it sometimes. Maybe he will comment a little. Anyway.]
I know he's been trying to enchant a sword. Ask him about his techniques for that, maybe. Could be something.
[Don't question his choice of venue for blood rituals though or he'll get testy, Palamedes already learned that one.
He curls his fingers minutely into the edge of the tapestry and quests out at it with psychometry, fumbling at the cascade of moments and memories that seems to fall out of it. It's— a whole lot of things that mean nothing to him, not without further study, and none of it seems to relate to a dream. Or a Julia.]
I've heard of the 'dream'; not of her. [not til he talks to his grandpa ghost some more anyway...] They killed a little girl to come here? That's darker than I imagined.
[Perhaps he'll do more digging with someone who remembers the dream; surely, killing a little girl was a significant event? Good god.]
Well, in any case— this thing was important to the people who were here before. I'm tentatively marking it down as part of the overall puzzle, considering... [He gestures up at the embroidered words; considering that! Assume nothing is mere decoration until proven otherwise, that line is practically screaming to be cross-referenced in a book or twelve.] And maybe this Julia is involved. Was involved.
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I know he's been trying to enchant a sword. Ask him about his techniques for that, maybe. Could be something.
[Don't question his choice of venue for blood rituals though or he'll get testy, Palamedes already learned that one.
He curls his fingers minutely into the edge of the tapestry and quests out at it with psychometry, fumbling at the cascade of moments and memories that seems to fall out of it. It's— a whole lot of things that mean nothing to him, not without further study, and none of it seems to relate to a dream. Or a Julia.]
I've heard of the 'dream'; not of her. [
not til he talks to his grandpa ghost some more anyway...] They killed a little girl to come here? That's darker than I imagined.[Perhaps he'll do more digging with someone who remembers the dream; surely, killing a little girl was a significant event? Good god.]
Well, in any case— this thing was important to the people who were here before. I'm tentatively marking it down as part of the overall puzzle, considering... [He gestures up at the embroidered words; considering that! Assume nothing is mere decoration until proven otherwise, that line is practically screaming to be cross-referenced in a book or twelve.] And maybe this Julia is involved. Was involved.