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

[anti_nonsense]

Ate a fae!?

[That's kind of a big deal!?]

[mirrortide]

Yeah? [Lapis sounds Unconcerned.]

[anti_nonsense]

I mean... how!?

[mirrortide]

Picked her up, crushed her against the wall, and put her into our mouth. [Like. Do you not know how eating something words, Rita??]

[anti_nonsense]

You're talking about a fae! There's no way it's that simple!

[mirrortide]

It was though.

[anti_nonsense]

That's impossible. You'd have to be...

--Wait, you said "our" mouth. Are you talking about fusion...? [Rita did, in fact, happen to hear that broadcast Amethyst made before.]

[mirrortide]

Yep. [She pops the 'p' obnoxiously.] Malachite's. Mine and Jasper's fusion.

[anti_nonsense]

You could've said so sooner.

[mirrortide]

Sorry, next time I'll mention when I eat a fae in a fusion. Just for you.

[anti_nonsense]

Hmph.

At least we've learned that eating a fae doesn't exactly work unless you're also a fae.

[You never know when you might need to know that kind of thing.]

[mirrortide]

I dunno. Personally I think we probably should have chewed her more. Or at least pulled her apart.

[anti_nonsense]

[Rita’s not going to comment on that, but...]

...What was she like, anyway? I don’t think I’d ever heard of that fae before.

[mirrortide]

[It's probably for the best.]

She's uh. Really into death. And drowning. Specifically drowning. And not just other people either, since she drowns herself for fun too.

[anti_nonsense]

Ugh... sounds like a real freak.

Wonder what it'd take to get her to stay dead one of those times...