We're walking back towards the tavern like...

Is it possible that the carriage belongs to the Candescent Creed temple here?

Um, how was your business in, in Dolmakiar?"

Oh, never really seems to be my business, but business was done and here we are again.

Weird coincidence with, uh... [laughs]

That's terrible.

With who, I don't know.

I would love to find out.

I also, I personally, I would love to go see what kind of demons they're talking to.

I'm learning that there's a really big, wide world out there, like Sil Rexi.

There's, there's a lot of demons out there.

Why not just say a standing invitation for a guided tour and a conversation TBD?

Well? Wikander has a lot on his plate, but there are plenty of appropriate people who could show you around, of course.

I'm talking about someone to pray to, someone to atone to, someone who can wipe away my, my damning.

Sure.

You can.

You have, in the last week, discovered that the entire religion that your family has invented is a sham.

I understand, you're having a crisis of faith.

Um, I have something to share with you that might put some heat under your ass.

I was waiting for the right time to say this, and I don't want to tell you how to feel, because I guess killing people is bad or whatever.

My family has sold their souls to your dad?

Mm-hmm.

I think that we should kill him personally.

Or, I mean, Bolur, he's yours now, so you can do whatever you want.

My question is, Cadigan, um, that man that I saw I recognize now as Primus Deconus.

Um, I think that it's a bad idea for you to be charging back into the Via Aurora.

But- Do you want me to try to kill him?

I pull back out for a moment

...

Turns out last time you were here you were not supposed to collect, uh-

A lapse of judgment on my part.

Um, you see, I was following our Lord Wickandr and my charge.

He made a choice and I chose to back him up, but what I should have done is seen the big picture, and for that I am so sorry.

We have a new delivery for you, but first I believe a remediation is order- in order, and I have a gift for you.

Take out Belaire's mask

You see they look and say, "Is that the curator's mask?"

It is.

What'd, what'd you do? Steal from that woman."

She's insane, okay? What I have, it's, it's part of a bigger picture.

That's what I've been trying to tell you, okay? You're right, Enmity.

Cruelty, you're very, very smart.

Wick ran.

He had a crisis of faith.

But the things that I have seen him do, he's ready.

[laughs]

Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna turn to Sikandra and say, "It sounds like some very important business is going down.

Would it be a good idea if I helped my sisters with their sacks? May I be excused to go help my sisters?"

"Strength, my Lord Takonis, has killed many more than whimpering around a graveyard."

He said, "Just 'cause you're goth doesn't mean you're tough." [laughs]

Mm.

And I think that it would be very prudent of us to give them some sort of information.

Let's say that Wick's grandma is bluffing and they don't really think that we were stolen by Tear.

Okay, fine.

But we can go and say, "Yeah, he was the guy, and we learned this," and give them something, anything, if it's a misdirect or if it's a piece-

Yeah.

We, we went to...

After, after Wick found out about his angel [laughs] stuff in the basement, went to free Tear because he thought that that's what a good leader does.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, do you ...

Just throwing this out there.

You know that at any time you could sell all these bitches up the river and go back to a very comfortable life.

I'm just ...

I just wanted to tell you that I wouldn't respect you any less if you decided to do that.

You can't tell me that you're not affectionate towards some of these people, no?

I won't let you down."

You got a spark to you, kiddo.

I believe in you.

Also, everyone else that got accepted are absolute fucking nitwits, so I'm gonna kinda be counting on you to, like, keep a tight ship.

All right?

Uh, he walks up-

I, as he walks up, I tap my, tap my tooth and bite my nail and I whisper to Azune, "What is this about? Do you know?"

I'm not Wick, you know? I'm-

Well, let's go through this options one by one.

If somebody searches the cart and finds us or tries to place us under arrest, I presume we've only been gone, what, like a week or so? Like, you still have pull in Dolmachear.

You're still the chosen Scion.

So I think that there's a level of being able to-... talk your way out of pretty much anything, unless there's something that you haven't told me about how your family handles corporal punishment in your family.

If you wish to touch it, you can inspect it further and see if you can follow up.

I wish to touch the document, and I will also say to Wick that I just remembered something, um, my sisters are probably close by.

The scent of the pit [laughs] of me also, um, the closer we get.

[laughs]

...

Theosi was a villain, and then said the most insane villainous shit.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Are we supposed to go and help Asune? What are we supposed to do? He just dumped, um, like, a, an elephant's load of shit on our laps right now.

Are we supposed...

What are we suppo- I d- this is Jazz.

Are you asking me for some sort of advice or-

No, no.

You already...

Listen, I feel like the, the, the knife is a symbol of like, you know, just remember to not be... not steal so much and, and hurt people's feelings on purpose.

Um, but I don't know, it's just, it's so, it's so beautiful.

It's such a beautiful item-

Where did you hear that name?

Uh, just now.