Day 54

[periphrasing]

[Usually when Peridot speaks up on the network, she's pretty perky and authoritative. NOT THIS TIME. HAHA.]

Ssssso... I don't want to cause a panic or anything, but there's not exactly an easy way for me to break this news to everyone, so I'm just going to come right out and say it:

I may have kind of, sort of... absolutely found proof in the Scribe's collections that the Summer Court is tracking us. And by the Summer Court, I mean specifically the Rose Queen and Ignatius and all their cronies from Portland are tracking us. And they know we have the Blue Rose.

....

Sorry.

...This is Peridot, by the way.

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[Mingle and threadjack as you please!]

Comments

[starseedling]

It said the Summer Queen sent him to help the Rose Queen with her mission.

[He can't help but sound ashamed on this one, his voice faltering.]

I'm sorry, Rita.

[anti_nonsense]

Don't apologize, idiot. I wanted to see what that artifact was capable of, myself.

[There's an audible sigh.] There goes any hope of at least one lasting injury on the Rose Queen's side...

[After all, it was unclear how badly Ignatius had been hurt in that last fight in Portland. Some even wondered if he was dead. Rita was never that hopeful.]

[starseedling]

[Okay, well fair enough. Moving on.]

I think he's one of the Summer Court's warriors... it said something about... here, let me read it:

'And so, the Rose Queen was sent to find the remnants of the Blue Rose’s presence with an entourage of the Summer Court’s greatest warriors.

'...The Rose Queen and the general Ignatius remembered - for not long ago they had encountered another beast, that had spurned them just the same.'

[anti_nonsense]

[There's a pause as Rita processes that...]

Great. They've got a grudge and a mission... and maybe even more allies from their Court coming our way.

...We'd better be ready to fight.