[Morning – Khar'Seth]
The investigation started without anyone officially declaring it.
It simply happened.
Kira left early, before the rest had finished breakfast, and returned an hour later with a mental list of who had been under Matthias's control the longest, who remembered the most, and who was in a condition to talk.
That was what an informant did.
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The first was a bear-man named Duren.
Fifty years old. Broad shoulders that now carried something that wasn't physical weight. He sat down with the group in the back room of the tavern with his hands clasped on the table and the expression of someone trying to remember a dream that was slipping away.
"It wasn't sudden," he said. "That's what's hardest to explain. It wasn't sudden."
"What was it like?" Emily asked.
