01. || crystal

[fairforce]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Theophania Hart
RECIPIENT: Riftwach
NOTES: nah

Hello, Riftwatch. I can't tell from observation if it's the custom to give an introduction--I think it's not--but I prefer this to waiting to catching everyone one-by-one in the hallway or training yard. I'm Lady Seeker Theophania Hart. [Well.] Tiffany. I do the title first so there's no surprise later.

I'm among the newest of your company, permanently, but here to investigate the recent abomination. I'll be requesting records and following up on the leads that I have throughout the course of my work, but if anyone has anything additional that should be said, please, let me know.

For the record, I'm finding the Gallows to be surprisingly comfortable, but maybe that's because I've been on the road for what feels like an actual Age, and the weather is terrible, and I'm suffering what I believe to be a mild case of trench foot. Given the time you've all been having, I'll stop my complaining there.

I suppose that's it, unless anyone has any advice to offer to a new recruit. And you can skip any hazing, I'm much too old for it.

Comments

[luaithre]

Marcus.

He had people. A family. Do you know of their whereabouts?

[fairforce]

What I know is rumor, Marcus. I'm here to discover the truth. If he had a family, and if their whereabouts are known, that is part of that truth. And knowing it would help me come to understand what happened.

Is it known?

[luaithre]

To what end?

[ He steps over her question without much thought, although he sounds very reasonable in the doing. ]

Where is this investigation to lead you? I'd know your intent, serah, before offering assistance, especially if you've no news to give in return.

[fairforce]

I am a Seeker of Truth. I am looking for the truth. I have resources, and connections, instead of news. I have the intention.

I was charged to find out what happened, to sort out the truth from the rumor and find the source of the problem. What the problem, the true problem, turns out to be, I don't yet know that. If you have information that could help me, I would ask it of you, to make that truth possible. If I am armed with the truth, I can help assign the fault and stop the problem from ever happening again.

[luaithre]

Alright.

[ Chantry pls. ]

Then I think it best, before we waste one another's time, that you familiarise yourself with the reporting on the matter. If you have further questions or your good intentions don't permit you access to our records, then I'll be at your disposal.

[fairforce]

[ :| ]

Thank you. I will call on you regardless, I'm sure. Speaking with someone so evidently familiar with the matter can only be useful.

And I want to assure you that this is more than mere good intentions. My only intention is to find the truth.

[luaithre]

[ —the twitch towards hanging up pauses. ]

Then the truth of it is that a man in obvious pain and torment succumbed to a demon, and died.

[fairforce]

With respect, serrah, that is the end. But it is not the truth. I want to know what came before.

[luaithre]

Very well.