Day 61, Late Evening: Public Channel

[anti_nonsense]

This is Rita, here with Syrlya. We've got some things to report about a recent rescue mission, so listen up.

Starting with the [there's a pause and an awkward intonation when she says] good news... We got Strange back, but he's dead. [Said news is delivered perhaps a bit too flippantly.] He had a revival spell, which has been activated. He'll be back to annoying the hell out of all of us before long, I'm pretty sure.

We… also gathered some information from Ignatius. [He’s not going to say how.] It isn’t much, but apparently the Summer Court had actually been following the Winter Court’s trail of us into the Athenaeum. They have had a spy of theirs following the carnival for a few years now. We also know that the Summer Court has determined the Ringmaster as an enemy for the same reason as the Winter Court--the death of the Winter Queen.

[... That’s the good news! There’s no extra, unknown charges added to the Ringmaster’s criminal record! Just the known ones.]

After the questioning, the Ringmaster came and ate Ignatius. [Again, Rita’s tone sounds almost too casual. She’s too tired to worry about breaking any of this news gently right now.] He isn’t dead, though. He's... well, don't ask me. We'll have to wait until the Ringmaster feels like talking about it.

Lambert is… currently recovering, so until he is in a state to return to his duties I will be acting in his stead. If you have anything you wish to reach the Nightrider or Nightrunners for, you may speak to me.

Comments

[flashover]

What?! You... you mind controlled a fae?! Why?!

[anti_nonsense]

For information.

[flashover]

That's... you....! Rita! We're supposed to be better than this! Above all that! If you start messing with their minds, then we're no better than they are!

[worldlyafflictions]

I dunno... I kinda feel like if they're gonna be so powerful they can do whatever they want ta people and we can't even touch 'em, getting inta their heads a little when the chance falls in your lap seems fair.

[flashover]

Maybe it is fair.. and maybe it feels really good to do it at the time... But I don't think that makes it the right thing to do. I... dunno.

[worldlyafflictions]

[Shima could say more about how that sort of moralizing is pretty pointless when faced with overwhelming power out to hurt more than just the person determined to hang on to their moral high ground, but he's too lazy to get into all that with Rin, not that interested in being responsible for messing up a good person's moral compass at the moment.]

Maa, well. Right or wrong, the problem is handling the consequences either way.

[flashover]

[it'd be wasted on Rin, anyway, Shima. You know that!!]

Yeah. So now we have a pissed off fire guy and no where to put him... He can't stay in the Ringmaster's stomach forever!

[OR CAN HE.]

[worldlyafflictions]

...Find a far edge abandoned backwater realm ta dump him in after he settles down and hope he's not the grudge-holding type and that we can find the Miracles fast? [the shrug is practically audible]

[flashover]

... Yeah I don't think that's gonna work, dude. We're screwed.